The Sun. — London, England, 1860-01-28 00:00:00

R 0 Y A 1, ENGLISH OPERA, CO VENT-GA RDEN. Under the raana, , Tement of Miss L. Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison. THIS EVEN ING, VTCTORINE. Messrs. Santley, H. If sigh, H. t cr-i, G. Honey, Walworth, ka Misses Parepa, Thirlwall. Cowl actor, Alfred Mellon. To conclude with the new grand pantomime, called PU SS IN BOOTS or. Hariequin' and the Fairy of the Golden Palms. Messrs. W. H. Payne, H. Payne, F. Barnes, Tallien, Infants Lauri, and Miss Clara Morgan. Doors oven at rptit-past 6 -Cominenoe at 10 r______2___llll,____..,test°7' T ,i EATit E- YA L, HA YM A.KKFT. 1.4..iee, Mr. J. B. Bucksfone. THIS EVENING, the comedy of THE EVIL GENIUS. Miss Ileyno'ds. After which, the new Haymarket Comic Christmas Panto mime, VALENTINE'S DAY; or, Harlequin and the Fairy Of the True Lovers' Knot. The pantomindsts the unrivalled Leelereqs. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM.- Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste. Last Nights of the Spanish Dancer, Isabel Cubas. THIS EVENING, the popular Drama of ST. MARY'S EVE. Madeline (her orifizinal charaster) Madame Celeste. After which, will be produced a new Grand Christmas Ex -1 ravavanza and Pantomime. KING TIIKUS HBE D, the LITTLE PET and the GitEAT PASSION. Clown, Mr. H. Marshall —Columbine, Miss Rosin°. Comment* et 7, Mr. Tom Taylor's New ITistorical Drama, founded on Mr. Charles Dickens's work, "A Tale of Two Cities," Is post poned until Monday. - ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lecsee, Mr. A. Harris. Re-engagement of the Wonderful Dane r, Mons. Espinosa. First appearance of Millie. Marietta Rosetta, Principal Dan seuse of La Scala, Milan ; and the Delapierre Family. These highly-talented Children will appear every night. The RoyaT Princess's Rifles on parade every evening. THIS EVENING, THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH: After which, a new !...,hristakas burlesque pantomime, by H. J. Byron. called JACK Tfl GIANT KILLER ; or, Harle quin King Artlair and he Knights of the Round Table. Jack, 311. s 1. ...0ui5e Keeley—Harlequin. Mr. Cormack Panta .oon, Hr. faulo —Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams- Mr. A. F. Forrest. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. In consequence of the great succes- , and demand for places, there will be ONE More, and positively the LAST, Morning Performance of the Pantomime of JACK TFIE JIANT KILLER (universally acknowledged the best Pantomime of the season), on MONDAY, January 30. Children under Ten Half-price ; commence at two o'clock. VEW THEMERE - ROYAL, AD ELI' 1 - 11 /N Sole rropriPtol.lnd Manager, Mr. Ben!. Webster. Reproduction of TM: DEAD HEART, with all its power• ful effects. THIS EVENING, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole, David Fisher, P. Bedf )rd, C. J. Smith, Billington, Powell, Romer, Miss Wooh,rar, K. Kelly. After which THE NYMPHS OF THE LITRLEYBERG: or, The Kni,ht and the Naiades. Messrs. Toole, Bedford, Eberle, Smith, Powell, Romer, Miss Woolgar, C. Webb, K. Laidlaw. at half-past six—Commence at seven. Kolt t)fr,,,. tro. n to to C, No charge for securin7 seats, nor tar of performance. All fees to servants of this establis'or,pnt ere strictly prohibited. llitnurer--Mr Wm. Smith. poy.; t, SF. .1 AM. E S'S THEATRE loin ~treat. St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. iliatter. ton. Thr. o,re.t The ,fre to Chel.ea, Pimlico, and West thr. Park beim; open to carriages and toot passen gen ail hours of the ohrlit. • f •! • • • rwr.ormarteer rili ~ , mrricn... PA F. v"I'S AND OITA !ZDTANS. Messrs. H. T. Craven and J. Franris. vesd 1114'R - Murray and Elizl Arden. whi,t, a new Trkzie Valle'', entitled MY NAME IS NnIIVA 1,. Sui,port t d by C. Young, Barrett, Miss Lydia (:13; ; St. ca ,e, 11'0 1 1, ,, ve1l by a new sketch, A HOUSEHOLD Diles Wy,, , r,tm purl Mr ii. T. Craven. ~ , ,,•1•!•1. with the now pantomime of PUNCH AND JUDY. I :!trylnclun,. Hi,is Lydia [Thompson snd Ihe Corps de I'e . rlequi ,1; Columbine, and Pantaloon, and the,,,_:..1 l'erlorm 1)0g .s, —;;allery, ; Ylt, is. The Rox-ofilce open frma t I I '.3orm open at halt-past six ; perform an:, , P.l) AI, AMP I-I ?TEE ATit F lijv. ,1 7 tr , ,tininKter-roAd Lrst Five WeeLs of Mr. NV. Cooke's Season. . - „. •.. - • TT! ts; !:\ , : , 7NING. the New ecta.:lllar Drama he Mr. Tt.. THE EMPEROR'S DEC EE, with tall sand of at.il great eft' , cts.—Scenes in the Ci•cle by Astley's wor:d-repc,..ned Erristrians, terminating with the Eques trian, I )peratic.4.l, and Comic Pantomime of RI,EgI'IN TOM Mt n)1)Y ; or, Tow er theiluntsman and the God dess Diana ; Diana, with Songs, Miss Jacobs.—Costly and Tra , ,stormation Scene.—Harlequin, M. Richarde; Colmnb'ne, lldile, Mazoni ; Clown, M liilderbrandt ; Pan taloon, 7.1 r. I'. At bot A family of Sprites Ei:oom Races by Living .ToC:ie.-; and r,,1 Ponies, with ring and Stage com bined. Commence at 7. Grand 7.fornim: . Portnrmanccs of the Pantomime on Satur day. Jan •..!,S, and Saturday, Feb. 4 and 11, at Two o'clock each day. k-. respectfiCy intimates Ma Farewell Benefit w: tale I:IAe'• on Mon , Ny. Jan. 30. C A NT I.:" "" " HAIL CONCERTS.— v n EVEN 114 Stcrndale Bennett's MAT 'nd tram 3reyerbeer's new opera at DIN. k 11 Voc , llistA 11Psmrs. l!olson (the Irish Come. Can int tV. ,'. Crltchfleld, and E. W. Ilvirney. . . -• !ntereatiirr Pictures are aided to the Fine Art, Gallery. fie suite of !Tails have he.. .n re-decorated and 4,,, , ,poititte one of the most unique and brithant eizLts of tho met , °Dolls N if EU celebrated rlcrl_7 - RE of the HORSE: FAT 't :.,.I.led to the alrend!, magnificent Collection 01 Paintinent ;,. Canterbury Hail Fine Arta Gallery. The gallery 1? from 9 till 11 on Sunday Evening. JAN. 28, 1860. Tt i W Tvtl. 51--ttigtia47l. yr.Ptyrday, 3 -!ow6at anc: if!tritte Chr Dight 39—'his day at noon. rf)l4 UTE r:-30.00. WIND, South-Wrsl - erly : light, with fine frosty weather, HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE, TMIS DAY.—Mornin, sb. Orn.—Afterno)n, sh. 15rn To-moltßow.-I\lornin, 5h 30u1.--21.1ernoon, ob. .15ir /O.K, N. .., ;1.Z3, . ‘IC ) t,;:.A Z.' 'it" '''P ~,‘ 5 VIA. ~., ...._ 4 , 64 N.. - `o ,' , ~- • ..,,,,,, .: 1. , ‘...c•z-,.. 5t , :.;• 7 4 , „t gl 4.... .4 .5 -bv-- - • 1. - - r . ...-- r ---, --, %, , -.• • , '. 4:1 - -41ifi-:-i - ''. -- k '' .l-,-. V.i ::1i1;4, x; . , 14i t i.f. ,- -- ;:„, • , ..g2 ;,. . _ ~ -i-'4:s•at" - , ---- " 44 t 4 1,t4Y .....c ~,,, ti t S U N LoNDIN, SATURDAY, JAN. 28, 1860. For yemrs burl,: it has been the common regret that so in.ifly bills have been lost for the Session from a want of system in apportioni:ig such bills as could have beeo jirt introduced in the House of Lords, and then sent down to the Commons for final con i,!‘). The consequence naturally was, that the time of the Lords was so much occupied at last with 131:1)lie and private bills, that it was with great difficulty they were enabled even to pass the public Ir. , it:ed, in many cases it was the usual practice towards the end of the session to mak e what was facetiously termed the slaughter of the Innocents. Now, what might have been con sidered a good joke to those who cared nothing about the fit& of the Innocents, it was no joke at all to the promoters of private bills, who had expended large sums of money and much valuable time in nursing those poor Innocents through a wearily protracted session in the vain hope that their ban flings might be christened into Parliamentary legitimacy. But no; Ministers and others influential members were too busy with their own matters to be troubled with the private concerns of others—though millions of prospective property depended on the event. The promoters of these private bills were treated as—" outer Barbarians"—in Chinese phra seology. And indeed much of our legislative " slang" bears a beautiful yet incomprehensible analogy to the learned language of the far East. So much so that often the very authors of the bills so interweave them with crude inconsistencies as to baffle even their own unlimited understandings ! It was in vain that common sense was appealed to, because the invariable answer returned to any plain suggestion always was—" There's no prece dent For it ! - '—as if the world were never to get wiscar or learn more by practice than it had before done by 'walking in the maze of mystery, and, like owls, shun the light Happily there is now some hope. A change has already taken pla ce . W e some eighty bills out of the ga t3 v hl e l yesterday a . list of in the Parliamen tary private list of bills on lc:der-book of the House of Commons, which are tevf:thnow transferred to the House of Lords to begin all T bills inhothgeencorma.l reason assigned for beginning mons was, that they might contain some "e or .r more money clauses, whi c h would vitiatethel being passed into law, if originally i ntroduced in the Lords. All this may have been constitutional enough where there was a money clause in a bill, bat w hy not sce if such actually were the case p The old :4er«)typed answer was ready—there's no prec,. den! fiLls beginning in the Lords, ones. and so n,u-t do tip our corpAitutional fore fathers did: It e. 0. IT course, to argue u tin- of pajudice. this principk, Nve t.hor,!(l have had 'no railways, no electric tele g"i111• no photography—in fact, " no nothing," as th" whip the old tops off their feet, and go on with new ones, on the good old plan of, byg( me days. It bas served our fathers in their time , and it were an insult to their memory to pre time on being wiser than they. 31( r. MASSEY deserves great praise or his coui :age in originating a change of system, and has accordingly conferred with t' e Chair ma. a. of Committees of the House of Lot ds as to what Bills might be first into -educed there in order to save time to both, .houses, and time and money to the promoters of.tlt.t.se bills. Accordingly a number of bills were selected ; but there was one drawback which we were going to point out yesterday, but which was so o bvious that it has now been remedied. It was thatt after the bills had been sent to the Lords the exa. miners should see that they had passed the sta' ading orders. Why, that ought to have been clorte first, and then everything would proceed smoothly. This has been done. So we may now ex:pect that the time of both houses will be occu pied at the same time more beneficially for the pu . blic, and far more agreeably for their lordships, w:io will now have something to do during the session, instead of being literally overwhelmed towitrds the end of it, and then not able to perform their duties at all. It is an immense and twofold advantage, of course, that there should be Peace and Free Trade between France and England. Peace, moreover, is bt;st secured through Free Trade. The most re liable and important of all guarantees for the maintenance of amity between two nations is that that secured by means of their un restricted mercantile intercourse. All these, to be sure, are but the merest truisms. They are simply self-evident propositions. They have but to be stated in so many words—they require, after being. so stated, not one syllable in the way of com mentary or elucidation with a view to their en forcement. But—granted all this—when it is sud denly announced that a Commercial Treaty has been concluded between France and England to this very end, namely, to bind the two countries to gether in securer amity by means of a free mercantile intercourse—it becomes a matter of curiosity to say the very least of it, to inquire into the manner in which this extraordinary arrangement has been arrived at. For it must be particularly born in recollection—it cannot for an instant, in fact, be for gotten that up to the date of the contrivance of this Mercantile Treaty, France has rigidly conducted her commerce upon a Protective system, and England now during very nearly the three last lustres upon the widest and the grandest Free Trade principles. Let it be remembered also that at the very same time we are here, in this Free Trade country of ours, mustering and arming 100,000 Rifle Volunteers and hastening forward at an im mense cost our efforts at military and maritime reorganisation : mainly, at any rate, if not entirely because of an insular jealousy that has sprung up in regard to our French neighbours ! Our allies across the Channel haring nearly as large 4 steam fleet as ourselves, and an army of from 500,000 to 600,000 of the most skilled and daring soldiers in Christendom ! Because of that army, and because of that fleet—whether causeleesly cr not at this moment it signifies nothing—above all, because with that army and with that. fleet France proclaims herself (through the lips of her despotic ruler) to be the onecountry in Europe everprepared to make war for an "idea''—BECAUSE of all this, England has been lately increasing her national defences, and rallying round the QUEEN'S colours corps upon corps of Riflemen. In the midst of all which warlike, though strictly defensive prepara tions, we are abruptly informed that a Commercial Treaty has been arranged between Protective France and Free-Trading England rith the view to the acquisition by both countries of the most material of all guarantees for their continued amity —for the organisation between them of a system of more and more unrestricted mercantile inter course. Within the compass of the recent Speech from the Throne, her MAJESTY, only the other lay—upon one hand announced the arrangement of this Commercial Treaty between France and Eng land—and on the other accorded her gracious wel come to the gathering together around her standards of the numerous bands of volunteer riflemen. Under these cireumstances it becomes naturally, we repeat, a matter of curiosity, to inquire into the manner in which this surprising Treaty has been arranged, and into the precise form, and ten dency, and character of its arrangements. So in quiring—it is remarkable to fiad at the first turn of the leaf, as it were, that this grand Free Trade Treaty, to begin with, is distinctly and unmistakeably lop sided. That the concessions, ou the part of Eng land are to be immediate, while the reciprocation, on the part of France, is to begin eighteen months further on ! When, moreover, we find that Mr. COBDEN has been personally engaged, on the part of England, in arranging that one-sided scheme ever yonder in Paris—we cannot, for the life of us, help calling to mind that :WI-. COBDEN, besides being the foremost champion and apostle of Free Trade, is also and peculiarly one of the most notable advocates of Peace-at-any-price. Knowing this, and seeing the glaringly one-sided character of the Treaty he has been arranging with an especial regard to the more firmly securing the bounds of amity between France and England, we ask not unnaturally upon the instant—lf this be the price of Peace paid down by this Peace-at-any Price Plenipotentiary ? We put the query point blank on Thursday ; and upon the very next morning —yesterday morning —the chief among the daily organs of the political opinions enter tained by Mr. COBDEN and his associates observes distinctly—writing of the Treaty and of the not very surprising objections made to it at the first bush on the score of its being so monstrously one-sided :—" If in the mean time we are required to make a sacrifice of revenue, we are quite prepared, under all the circumstances of the case, to pay ifr cheerfully as a pr em i um of insurance on a great policy of peace with France !" Why this is tantamount to a flagrant avowal of the fact suspected—that this is really and truly the price to be meekly paid down by England for Peace at the instance of her Peace-at-any-Price Plenipotentiary ! Happily the Treaty is only yet completed conditionally upon its approval by Par liament ! 'We may leave the matter confidently, therefore, to be decided upon by the House of Commons—certain that, in striving to secure Free Trade with France, it will not do so by the paltry means of those pusillanimous views known popu larly as the doctrines of Peace at any Prise. What is before us ? Who shall say ? The absorption of Nice and Savoy by France, with a vie w to demonstrate the perfect disinterestedness of the Italian policy of the Imperial Government ? The piecemeal modification of the Reform Act of 1832—hy way of settling the question effectually, o far as it concerns the present generation ? The pc.rpetuntion of the Income Tax —as the most de •i :iv e way of eon tinning the national confitlence iu Mr. GLADSTONE'S prescience as Chancellor of the Exchequer P The attempt at some further diplomatic conciliation of the Chinese—as the best possible means of avenging the infamous Peiho ambuscade ? , The concession of all sorts of advantages, for a year and a half to come, to the French monopolist,—as the most ingenious method that could possibly be contrived for the infusing Free Trade principles into the mercantile policy of the French Govern ment ? The toleration of derisive remarks as to the folly and futility of the Rifle Corps Movement such as those intemperate observations indulged in the other day to that effect by the Scottish Com mander-in-Chief (Lord At ELVILLE)—by way of most earnestly encouraging the patriotic enthusiasm in the development of our National Defences ? Which of all these wonderful things are we to accept the most eagerly or the most willingly ? Certainly they are one and all talked about just now pretty freely both in and out of Parliament, in the City and the West-end, in the club-room and in the drawing-room. But, perhaps, they are one and all wrong. Perhaps in regard to them all, we are each of us labouring under some surprising delusion. They may be the merest canards. They may be no more credible than—if we are to judge of these things according to the views of Lord PALMERSTON or Lord GRAN VILLE—than Mr. REUTER'S telegrams ! Yet they are talked of, nevertheless. The newspapers (that never, of course, contain a word of truth of any kind) are full of them. However this may be, we are told to wait—as we have certainly been waiting Heaven knows how long—for (let us say) the re moval of the Income Tax! For the settlement, at last, of the question of the Reform of Parliament 1 For the more perfect organisatien of our insular de fences, both military and maritime ! For all these and many similar boons we have been waiting, again we say, Heaven knows how long! The good time is always coming—never come ! We are everlastingly told to " wait a little longer." The Reformer, the Patriot, the lover of peace, and the advocate of economy, each in turn—" never is but always to be blessed." Now, however, the delay is " positively" like the Farewell Benefit of a celebrated Cantatrice " for the last time." The holyp roverb tells us " Hope deferred maketh the heart sick." Ac cording to the Whig Commentators upon the text, however, it ought to make the believing Liberal, the credulous Reformer, al most sink at last under the weight of a very plethora of contentment. Again, under the regime of this beneficent Coalition, we are consoled by the reminder that, at any rate, by way of a good, or rather of the very best beginning, we have the Men ! As to the Measures well, in their regard, as in the instance of the foes looked for by the soldiers at bay in MACBETH'S castle " the cry is still They Come !" The Commercial Treaty—the bran new Budget—the Reform Bill Redivivus—they are all coming : the Treaty almost immediately—the Bud get as soon as possible afterwards—the Reform Bill on the 20th February. And in the meantime, just as we may feel disposed to view it, either by way of staying our appetite, or by way of giving a keener edge to it—we are told that each is about as nearly as possible—Perfect. The assurance, certainly, and not unnaturally, makes us await each disclosure with a livelier sense of eager expectancy. It will at least have the relish of novelty, if we are not again doomed to disappointment. The Grace has been formally pro nounced, and this time—looking to the closing paragraphs of the Royal Speech—it must be con• fessed, with more than usual unction. The next thing is to Uncover—that those who have been hidden to the banquet may at once Discuss, with what relish they may, these measures of mercantile, legal, fiscal, and parliamentary improvement. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR CASTLE, JAN. 27. The Earl of St. Germans, the Lord Steward, and Lord Proby, the Controller of the Household, had audience of the Queen yesterday, and presented the Addresses from the House of Lords and the House of Commons, in answer to her Majesty's gracious speech from the Throne on Tuesday last. The Royal dinner-party in the evening included the Princess Alice, the Maharajah Dulesp Singh, Viscount Eversley, Lady Caroline Barrington, the Right Hon. Sir James Graham, the Right Hon. Sir Hamilton and Lady Seymour, Col. Oliphant, and Major Elphinstons, R.E. The band of the Ist Life Guards played during dinner: Glee, " The Red Cross Knight" Callcott. Selection, " Don Carlos" . .. Walzer, " Bardenlieder" Overture " Figaro" Her Majesty's private band afterwards performed in the Drawing-room the following selection : Overture—" Me 'reset ill e" Second Scene (let Act), " Lohengrin" .Wagner. The Queen, with Princess Alice, rode in the Riding house this morning, attended by the Hoi. Mary Balteel. His Royal Highness the Prince Consort went out shoot ing, attended by Major-General Sir 11. Bentinck and Lieut.- Col. Ponsonby. Sir Hamilton Seymour and Col Parker had the honour of accompanying his Royal Highness. Princess Beatrice took a carriage drive and visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent at Frogmore. His Highness the Maharajah Duleep Singh took leave of her Majesty and returned to London in the forenoon. The following visitors have also left the Castle :—Viscount Eversley, the Right Hon. Sir James Graham, the Right Hon. Sir Hamilton. and Lady Seymour, and Cel. Oliphant. A deputation on the subject of spirit licenses in theatres had an interview with Sir George C. Lewis yesterday at the Home-office. The deputation consisted of Lord Portnoy, M.P. ; Mr. John Locke, Q.C., M.P. ; Mr. Edwin James, M.P., Sir J. Duke, M.P., Mr. Roupell, M.P., Mr. Wil liams, M.P., Mr. T. Pancombe, M.P., Sir C. Napier, M.P., Mr. Spooner, M.P., and Mr. Newdegate, M.P. A deputation from the African Steamship Company had an interview with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson and the Right Hon. W. Cowper yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade. The deputation consisted of Mr. Mac gregor Land and Mr. T. Norton, directors, and Mr. Duncan Campbell, secretary. A deputation from the National Temperance League, consisting of Mr. Joseph Payne (Deplity Assistant-Judge), Mr. George Cruikehank, Rev. G. Small, M.A., Rev. P. W. Williamson, Rev. G. W. M'Cree, Rev. W. Ackworth, Rev. G. Morris, Rev. J. Harcourt, Mr. W. Twsedie, Mr. John Phillips, Mr. S. Cording, Mr. T. Hudson, Mr. T. Lowther Dove, Mr. Silas Tucker, Mr. W. Ladbook, Mr. John Ambler, Mr. James; M'Currey, Mr. Hayne, Mr. J. Eastbrook, Mr. W. Barlow, Mr. John Stewart, Mr. G. C. Campbell; Rev. J. Doxey, Mr. G. Howlett, Mr. Handel Coseham, Mr. G. Gladwin, Mr. John Taylor, Mr. J. Wade, Rey. J. Rcklgers, Mr. T. Whittaker, Mr. G. H. Marshall, Mr. Joseph Taylor, Mr. A. Simner, and Mr. John Mat thews, had an interview yesterday with Sir G. C. Lewis, at the Home-office. LATEST E W S. The following telegrams have beep received a. Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, S ATTJRDAY. The Jfoniteur of to-day says,— Their Majesties will not receive on Sunday next in consequenee of the illness of the Grand Du c h ess Stephanie of Baden. TURIN, Y. 27. The Marquis Massimo d'Azeglio has 'bee' ap pointed Governor of Milan. M. Ratazzi has left for Nice. PARIS, TAN. 27. Yesterday M. Thouvenel paid his vi:iites d'eti quette to the Papal Nuncio and the Ambast adore of Austria, Great Britain, and Russia. A telegram from Nice announces that -the state of health of the Grand Duchess Stephanie; tof Baden has become alarming. Despatches from the Governors of British Columbia and Heligoland were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the North Ame rican Provinces and Bermuda. TOULON, JAN. 27. A fire broke out last night in the bake house of the Arsenal, and threatened to be very disastrous. By the activity of the authorities and or4uumerous workmen the fire was extinguished. Sir George Grey, E.C.8., and Lady Grey have left Howchin's Hotel for Paris for a short time. The Right Hon. W. G. Hayter and Mrs. Hayter have arrived at their residence on Hyde-park. terrace, from Brighton. His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange has arrived at Fenton's Hotel from Paris, attended by Count de Bylandt, Count Rechteren, and Lieutenant -Colonel Vanden den Bosch. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge will leave St. James's Palace early in the ensuing week, to pass a few days with her Majesty and the Prince Consort at Windsor Castle. Lord and Lady John Russell received the Earl of Minto, Lord James Butler, Lord Sudoley, the Right Hon. Sir George C. and Lady Theresa Lewis, the Hon. George Elliot, Captain Falbo, Mr. Campbell of Islay, and a select party, at dinner last evening, at their residence in Chesham-place. _ The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Commons commences his customary full-dress Parliamen tary dinners before Easter on Saturday next, at his official residence at the N( w Palace of Westminster. THEATRE ROYAL COVENT GARDEN (ENGLISH OPERA).—The op,..ra of the " Crown Diamonds" last even ing ittracted a crowded and fashionable audier.(,,, Miss Louisa Fyne and Mr. N. Harrison sustaining their usual characters, with, if possible, increased applause. Her Majesty's box was occupied by the Prince of Orange and suite. Among the visitors we also noticed Lady Cunning ham, Lady Townley, the Right Hon. the Lord and Lady Mayoress, Sir Frederick Roe, Bart., Captain Roebuck, &o. 1 1 HE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVEIvfiNG, JANUARY 28, 1860. Austrian forces would cross the southern frontier if Sardinian troops should be sent into Tuscany and the Romagna, but he must have good reason to believe that Austria will not interfere, as he offered to bet five ducats to- one that Austria would not be in volved in a war during the year 1860. It appears to me that her Majesty's speech is calculated to damp the ardour of the war party in Austria, but the Ost Deutsche Post, having read that part of it which relates to Italy through Austrian spectacles, has discovered that the words " freedom from foreign intervention" apply to the Emperor Napo leon rather than to the Emperor Francis Joseph, "as the latter, strictly speaking, has as good a right as the King of Sardinia to send troops into the so-called .Emilia," The Imperial Govern ment now turns :a deaf ear to those persons who advise it to sell Venetia, but the time is hardly far distant when it will be necessitated to take into serious consideration the counsel of its well-wishers. Another reason why Austria will not sell Venice is, that she knows the sale of one province would produce an exceedingly bad impression on the others, and more particularly on the Southern Tyrol and Hungary. A few nights ago many persons paraded the streets of Verona shouting Evviva Plialia ! and Evviva l'lnclipendanza! and some of them were taken into custody, but I have not heard that any violence was used by the authorities. During the night of the 19th or 20th instant a " tricolor" was hoisted on the mast or pole which is on the principal place of Chioggia, and it was not remarked until the inhabitants of the town went out in the morning to make their customary purchases. During the last two or three days the members of the Hungarian deputation have been the " lions" of Vienna. Instead of the kalpag (the national cap, trimmed with fur), the Hungarian deputies wear a felt hat, with a turned-up brim, which produces a very disagreeable impression on the Austrian autho rities, who have an innate aversion for anything and everything which is like a carbonaro hat. In gene ral the colour of the dresses worn by the Protestant petitioners is black, and in some cases the spurs attached to the •zismen (short hessian boots) are of the same sombre hue. The deputation consists of some 50 or 60 persons, who represent the Calvinist Superintendencios on this and on the other side of the Theiss, and on this side of the Danube. The superintendency on the other side of the Danube is not represented, Government having prevented its holding a " Convent." Yes terday evening the Hungarians intended to go in corpora to the Burg Theatre, but only a few of them succeeded in getting tickets. The deputa tion has had two or three interviews with Count Rechberg, the Minister President, but they will hardly be able to obtain an audience of the Em peror. Some of the Magyars now here are re remarkably fine specimens of humanity, and the national costume shows their stately figures to great advantage. The substance of the petition of the Protestants to the Emperor is, that the ancient and legal basis of the Evangelical Church in Hun gary may be restored. Count Leo Thun avers that the Imperial patent will not be suspended; but it appears to me that it cannot possibly be enforced if the Protestants are true to themselves. Violent measures are entirely out of the question, as the present is by no means a favourable moment for religious persecution. In my more recent cor respondence little has been said of the countries conterminious to the eastern provinces of Aus tria ; but it is now necessary that your atten tion should be directed to the state of affairs in the Solavonic provinces of Turkey in Europe. It is almost impossible to doubt that the Sclaves in Turkey mean mischief, as information has recently repeatedly reached me that there is to be a general rising in Bosnia, the Herzegovine, Servia, Monte negro, and Bulgaria (?) in the spring of the year. It is not in my power to assert that there is an understanding between the South Solavonic races in Austria and their brethren in Turkey, but it would be good policy on the part of this Govern ment to endeavour to satisfy its Sclavonic subjects, who are nearly, if not quite, as discontented as the Hungarians. The late Count Jellachich once told me that he was almost ashamed to look his fellow countrymen in the face, as he had not been able to keep any of the promises which he had been autho rised by the Schwarzenberg cabinet to make to them. The Ban was for a time extremely restiff, and openly condemned tie conduct of " Herr Bach," but an illustrious lady found a handsorwa young wife for him, and he soon became perfectly docile. INDIA. The following telegram has been receired at Mr. Reuter's office in anticipation of the Bo bay mail due in London, via Marseilles, on 01,0 sth of February :-- BOMBAY, lAN. 10. The Waghurs have been severely beaten by Major Nonner. The loss on our side was 16 kilted and 40 wounded. A large force h preparing for China---namely, 12,000 Europeans and 8,000 Sepoys. THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The following telegram has been received by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com pany, dated January 27 : The Panther, with the mails from Calcutta and China, arrived at Marseilles at 2 o'clock p.m. this day. The mails left for London at 5 p.m. THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's office in anticipation of the Australian mail, due in London, via Marseilles, on the sth of February : ADEN, JAN. 18. MELBOURNE, DEC. 19. The Australian Parliament met on the 29th of November. The financial statement presented by Government showed a considerable retrenchment in the expenditure. A resolution concerning the Melbourne Mint, and a motion for the payment of members, have passed the Assembly. Parliament has been adjourned for the holidays until January 10, and on its reassembling the Land Bill will be taken into consideration. The Geelong Railway has been purchased by Government. Government Debentures for £1,000,000 sterling leave by this mail, together with the sealed mini- mum price. A mercantile panic prevails, and many failures have taken place ; among them P. M. Tennant King (commission works), W. and J. Pole, and Burge. The banks are very stringent in making ad vances; the warehouses are overstocked. The following goldships have sailed since the departure of the last mail : Dec. Saldanha, for Liverpool, with 16,000 ounces. Dec. B.—The Essex, for London, with 14,000 ounces. Dec. 19.—The Malta, mail steamer, with 3,650 ounces, for London. SYDNEY, DEC. 18. Parliament assembled on the 29th of November. The Budget proposed large reductions in the expen • diture and a Government subsidy for a European telegraph. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY. THE BOURSE, Jan. 27.—The market has been very dull. Threes, after having been done at 68f. 55c. receded to 68f. 45c., but have since railed to 68f. 50c. Mobilier varied from 755 f. to 751 f. 25e. ; Austrian, 515 f. to 512 f. 50c. ; Lombard, 555 f. to 553 f. 75c. ; Orleans, 1,357 E 50c. to 1,352 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 895 f. to 892 f. 50c. ; Western, 582 f. 50c, to 585 f. The following were the last quotations:- 4.i per Cents. .... 06 75 Cridit Fonder 747 50 Do. end month ... Belgian . 3 per Cents. 65 50 I Pisdraontese (5) Bl 75 Do. end month.... 68 50 Roman 6O 50 Bank Shares 2825 Austrian Credit Mobilier .. 760 §_panieh Threes De. looount KA ILWAYS. Cask. Account. Orleans Northern 912 50 .. 910 New ditto 826 25 .. 827 60 Lyons and Mediterranean 895 .. 893 76 Geneva 506 25 .. 606 26 Southern Western 685 .. 682 50 Eastern Sardinian. 397 50 .. 400 Austrian Lombard ... Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 7c. ; money, 25f. 50.; three months, paper, 24f. 905.; money, 24f. 87ic AUSTRIA. A Vienna letter says :—" It appears certain that the question of a congress will soon be again the object of serious negotiations. France . and England are endeavouring to gain over • the powers to the congress. It is even as -1 serted that France has instructed her repre ' sentative here to declare that she still con ' siders herself bound by the treaties of Villa , franca and Zurich. But it is very doubtful that the Western Powers will succeed in persuading the powers to meet in congress. It is not to be thought of, so far as concerns Austria. At least, Count de Rechberg has recently declared, in the most positive manner, that under present circumstance he would not take part in a Congress. A communication was received here so far back as the 16th from the Pontifical Goverment, announc ing that it declines to accept the propositions con tained in the letter of the Emperor Napoleon. A deputation of 40 Hungarians has arrived in this city, and as it comprises several magnates who are of the Roman Catholic religion, the belief is that it has come to treat of the general affairs of Hungary, and not specially of the question of the Protestants. The deputation has solicited an audience of the Emperor." A letter from Vienna, dated Jan. 25, says : The intelligence that Sardinian troops are about to march into Modena, Parma, and the Romagna dreadsha n a has unpleasant rousedple the a renewal the an t ire m of the impression rf ehs os hostilities, Government, otnl oiens,atsheitfi publi c, andrmlproducedy which believes that another campaign in Italy would lead to a finan cial catastrophe. Yesterday morning, after the re ceipt of a telegram announcing the appearance of Sa iio r l d o iun lt ia lan t g ro u o a p g s e at w a N s li u r s a e ndo db la y: i n n e fl a u r en A t l i o a d l e m na di s t u ar c y h men tliat an immediate intervention on the part of Austria appeared probable, but information has since reached me that the E moment," intends to rema i n a passive spe c tator "for pectator th o e f the doings of the non-Austrian Italians. My infor maixt was either unable or unwilling to say whether SARDINIA. The Debate says :—" The Nord, on the authority of a Paris letter, states that the Xing of Naples has decided on an intervention in the States of the Pope, in. order to re-establish the authority of th e Holy See over Romagna. Although the Nord has considered this news as serious, and has pointed out all the inconveniences which might be cased by this resolution of the King of Naples, the re is reason to believe that the intentions of the Keapo litan Government have been exaggerated, an d that it has merely shown itself disposed to replace the French army at Rome in the event of its depart ure being called for by the Holy See." The Ofcial Gazette of Turin publishes the fol lowing order of the day from the new Minister of War : Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, an d Sol diers !—Having been called by his Majesty to the high honour of directing the Ministry of War and the Navy, I shall zealously endeavour to fulfil the King's intentions, and to be always ready to meet whatever event may arise from existing uncertain ties. The illustrious general who preeedea me has opened a new era for the army; he organised it, introduced proper regulations, and set the seal to his work as a brave soldier and able captain, in the Crimean campaign. During the last wax!, in which you fought with so much glory, the *Ol - of the new provinces, separated from t . heir former Governments, came to swell our ranks, while a great part of Italy organised troops for the common defence. This sudden increase of forces, and the changes which have taken /A loe in the kingdom, show the necessity of profoundly studying the altered circumstances of our military family. In the midst of so many things to be successively accomplished, my confidence is strengthened by a profound conviction of your per severance in your designs. My work will advent :et, aided by the counsels and experience of your g pl iant chiefs, who will take pleasure in prepari the way for that success which I confidently exp( ac t from the discipline and valour of you all, who have never disappointed the hopes of your king ani FANTI " Turin, 22d Jan." country. The Indipendente of Turin states that Commander Boncompagni and Count Pepoli of Bologna az! a both at Turin at present, whence it concludes tba t a very decisive measure is about to be taken by t h e Piedmontese Government with regard to Centi 111 Italy. It is stated in a letter from Florence that tI 3 difference between the Tuscan Government and Cardinal Corsi relative to the name of the Gran I 1 Duke being retained in the prayers used in tbs e diocese of Pisa has been arranged by the Cardin. 1.1 consenting to substitute the name of King Victc % r Emmanuel for that of the Grand Duke. The Tuscan Government has issued a deer abolishing tithes, and enacting that the priests e 11- titled to them shall receive an equivalent from ti b e public treasury. The 3111 an Gazette states that 18 Swiss of of ors and two privates in the Papal service have desert ied from Pesaro. Colonel Schmidt, Papal Commandant of Perug has issued a notice warning all the citizens of to tat town to abstain from spreading alarming news in pain of the severest penalties. The withdrawal of gold from the Bank yestei day was £136,000 in bars, making £286,000 since the datte of the account published yesterday, FRANCE AND SA TOY. The Patric of yesterday publishes the following article : " It is not a shift or provisional arrangement which France is now following up in Italy. The late campaign has given her the right, and has almost imposed upon her the duty, of founding in the Italian Peninsula a permanent work with every condition of stability. Italy was a perpetual cause of disorder ; it was a European malady. That malady wants a radical cure. It was no longer a nationality; it was a volcano. This volcano must be distinguished. What means were best suited to obtain this desirable result ? Nothing better could have been done than what has been done —that is to say, to ask from geography, language, history, their opinion, expressed by the popular wish. " To superficial minds the popular wish, though often repeated, is simply a fiction. To clear-sighted minds, to historians worthy of the name, to M. Au gustin Thierry, for instance, the popular instinct, resisting all circumstances and traversing the most various phases without losing anything of its power, is history itself. The present condition of Italy gives us a striking example of this truth. Left to themselves, the populations endeavour to realise the conceptions of the diplomacy of two centuries, conceptions which were only violently interrupted in 1815, when the spirit of hatred and the spirit of retaliation took the place of skill and prudence. " In a remarkable article published in the Revue des Deux Hendee of the 15th of July last, M. St. Mare Girardin called to mind that at the end of the 17th century, and before the vicissitudes of the Spanish war, England and Holland had no more wish than France to abandon Italy to Austria. It is known,' he observes, that before the will of Charles 11., which gave the whole Spanish monar chy to the grandson of Louis XIV., treaties of par tition of that succession, always on the point of being mooted, had been made between France, England, and Holland.' " We have nothing to do to-day with the con tents of the first of those treaties of partition, but let us consider what was contained in the second, under date the 17th of March, 1700. The Archduke Charles of Austria, afterwards Emperor Charles VI., was called upon to take the inheritance of the Spanish monarchy, especially Southern Italy,which was given to the Dauphin. As regards the Duchy of Milan, it was not to be given either to the Dau phin or to the Archduke : it was allotted either to the Duke of Lorraine, who was then to hand over Lorraine to France, or to the Duke of Savoy, who was then to make over Savoy and the county of Nice to France. " The same attraction which draws through his tory the Milanene territory into the arms of Pied mont draws Savoy and the county of Nice into the arms of France. In this point of view, it may bo said that if the cession of Lombardy to Pied mont is an aggrandisement, it is not, properly speaking, a conquest. The event had been long foreseen and desired, and the delegates of the Milanese municipality who came to offer the keys of the city of Milan to King Victor Emmanuel in the camp of the Emperor Napolean 111. did not obey the pressure of victory, but sentiments of old standing, and sympathies consecrated by centuries. "IR like manner, when, in 1792, Montesquiou was ordered to occupy Savoy, he did not enter as a conqueror, but as a friend, and M. Anselm Petetin, whom we quote first with pleasure in this question, has said with truth—' fhe entrance of Montesquiou into Savoy was not an invasion ; it was a festival.' " Again, in the same year, 1792, when General D'Anselme was ordered by the Convention to make the conquest of Nice, the town, though provided with formidable artillery, surrendered on the first summons; and the corporation of Nice proceeded to the head-quarters of General D'Anselme to sup plicate him to occupy the town to maintain order. "In fact, the country of Nice had long been French like Savoy. It was so profoundly French that it had no difficulty in becoming a French de partment, and since the last separation, since 1815, at each political subversion, Nice experienced a deluded hope that she would become, by the aid of treaties, that which she really is by her heart and aspirations. _ " Does it not, moreover, suffice to cast a glance upon the map to understand that it is a fragment e.tetached from our territory ? Does not a glance on the map suffice to show that on the day when France shall have the frontier of the Alps on the side of Savoy she will, logically, want the maritime Alps ? Treaties made in hatred to France may have decided otherwise, but they have outraged geo graphy, and diplomacy in 1815 was in flagrant opposition to nature. A wise and enlightened policy will re-establish the proper state of things. No obstinacy will be shown in separating territories connected by so many bonds. Like Savoy, the County of Nice will again become French, and that great nation called France will no longer have for frontier a rivulet called the Var." (From the Times.) " Her Majesty's Government have received no information as to the negotiations stated by the Ministerial journals in Paris to exist between France and Sardinia for the annexation or the Duchy of Savoy and the County of Nice to the dominions of the Emperor of the French." Such is the answer of Lord Granville to the inquiry of the Marquis of Normanby upon a subject which has at present assumed no official shape, and which exists only in rumours and conversation and newspaper articles—just as the Italian question did thirteen months ago, or as the fate of the Pope did only a very few weeks since. Her Majesty's Government know of no such design as that of annexing Savoy and Nice to France. At the same time it happens, by a singular coincidence, that the Government of France has been long acquainted with the opinions of our Government upon any such arrangement ; and from the tone in which the fact is communi cated we may conclude that Napoleon 111. has not been encouraged by the English Cabinet to indem nify himself for his disinterested exertions in fa vour of the unity of Italy by adding to the French. Empire an important portion of an Italian king dom. Of course, the French Emperor has no such design, for, if he had, considering the intimate bonds of friendship which bind him and us to gether, and the frankness of his disposition, he would have told Lord Palmerston or Lord John Russell what his intentions were, and Lord Gran ville would not have been left in ignorance of any thing so important as a formed plan for the parti tion of the kingdom of Sardinia. If the Emperor of the French has said nothing, it is, of course, be cause he means nothing. If her Majesty's Govern ment has no information, it is, of course, because there is nothing to be informed about. The House of Lords, upon Lord Granville's answer, immediately " dropped the subject," and adjourned. In the exercise of proper courtesy and credulity, and self restraint, all the diplomatists, and senators, and journalists of Europe ought perhaps to do likewise. It is, notwithstanding, a disquieting symptom that the French press is applying itself so sedu lously to teach us the history of Savoy and of the county of Nice. The Paris newspapers are very anxious to fix upon our attention what happened to those pieces of territory previous to 1815 —pre vious to those "treaties made in hatred of France, in violence of geography and diplomacy, and even in flagrant opposition to nature herself." There is just now a very suspicious desire to remind Europe how, in 1792, when Montesquieu was charged with the office of occupying the Duchy of Savoy, he was received rather as a friend than as an invader, and how his progress was a fete rather than a hostile occupation. However little we may happen to care for such memories, it is insi s t e d t h at we s h a ll call to mind h ow in is same year 1792 General D'Anselme, who was sent by the French Conven tion for that purpose, took possession of the county without opposition, the city itself, notwithstanding its formidable artillery, surrendering upon the first summons, and the municipal body going forth to the revolutionary army, and begging them to come in and keep order. We are called upon to believe that what Montesquiou and D'Anselme did with the armed Sans Culottes of those days was so just and natural, and so in accordance with the feelings of the inhabitants of Savoy and Nice, that these people have never ceased to long for those times back again. Not only are we asked to believe all this, but the map of Europe is unrolled before us, I and we are requested just to cast one glance at it, and then say whether Nice is not conspicuously a piece of French territory, and whether it is not manifestly absurd that a great country like France should be bounded by a contemptible little brook like the Var ? And then Savoy ! The mountains of Savoy are as evidently the natural boundary of France as is the—we were going to say the mid channel of the Rhine; but the appeal to geography and nature is not at this moment pressed to its legitimate end. When France has the city of Nice and the western mountains of Savoy, it is clear that she must have the Maritime Alps. Look at the map and read the wars of the first French Republic— nothing can be plainer. Why should we have these studies forced upon us ? Such old claims and revolutionary precedents disturb our reveries, which are just now of flourish ing financial statements and a large annual surplus. There are no Montesquious, or D'Anselmes, or even Pichegrus now-a-days to swarm over the French frontiers; why should we go reading old histories and pondering over modern maps ? We thought we were shaking down into a settled state, that every man was going to cultivate his vines to the utmost, that our lively impulsive neighbour had sown all her wild oats, and was going into business with a steady resolution to make money and pay her way. Surely she cannot be already back again at her old tricks, casting covetous eyes upon her neighbour's vineyards ? If we give way to these notions, nothing would be easier than to persuade ourselves that all our neighbours' possessions, on both sides of us, would be much better in eur hands than in theirs. Would it not be too tantalising to a French army always to be encamped upon the peaks of the Alps, looking down almost into the streets of Turin ? Neither Hannibal nor the First Napoleon could resist the temptation. The Zouaves would be more than human if they did not, when perched upon those lofty posts, find some excuse from time to time for a foray in those fat plains. In inns and houses where chamber doors communicate it is always usual that the key should be left on the side of the weaker and more assailable occu pant, Poor unprotected Piedmont sleeps next to a strong and enterprising gentleman of rather liberal morality. Surely, in fairness Piedmont ought to have the key ? Not, perhaps, that it would be of much use if lie were determined to force the door ; but, still, to take away the key and put it on his own side seems to be an unnecessary facility, if not a public affront. But we hope that France does not intend to do anything so shabby. It would rub all the gilt off her Italian angles; it would take all the glory out of that magnificent " idea" for which she went to war. She might have it, of course, if she pleased—that is to say, Sardinia would not say her nay. Victor Emmanuel would not pause to barter a couple of cities and a few mountain tops against Florence. But what would the world say ? What would that history which the French press ' is now pertinaciously insisting upon reading to us say ? We might perhaps have a secret consolation in knowing that the population which persecutes us with monkeys, white mice, and h*.rdygurdies would be draughted off into French armies and sent to Africa, but we should all feel ashamed of the great Italian liberator who had enveloped himself in the misty halo of a tremendous " idea," only in order that he might gain a beggarly bit of territory. Therefore we must hope that there will be no oc casion for her Majesty's Government ever to ex press to the Emperor of the French, in that "firmest and most friendly manner," the opinions which they hold upon this " great European ques tion." Therefore, we cannot believe that there will be any necessity for Lord John Russell to remind the French Emperor of Article XCII. in the Vienna Congress Treaty, which guarantees the neu trality of the provinces of Chablais and Faucigny, and the whole of the territory of Savoy to the north of Ugine, and places those provinces under the pro tection of the Great Powers, as " belonging to his Majesty the King of Sardinia." It would not be to the honour of Napoleon 111. or to the honour of France for history to have to write that in the year of grace 1859 France went to war for Italy and repaid herself for her sacrifices by a scrap of mountain territory. To state the case is to show how impossible it is that it can ever occur. So let Nice be composed and let the Savoyards be com forted. They are as safe from any interference from France—as Austria was last December twelve month. PONTEFRACT ELECTION....--.The election of a re presentative for this borough, in the place of Mr. W. Cverend, Q.C., who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds, has been fixed for Monday next. There are two candi dates in the field,—Mr. Childers, the unsuccessful can didate at the last election, and Mr. S. Waterhouse, of Hope Hall, Halifax, who has come forward at the soli citation of the Conservati res. Both parties have declared their intention to go to the poll, which will take place on Tuesday. THE ARMSTRONG GUN.—In reference to the second article which appeared on this subject in the Times of Thursday last, we have received a letter from Mr. Bash ley Britten, pointing out where that gentleman thinks an inferential injustice has been done him. Mr. Britten has misunderstood the drift of our remarks, which were simply to the effect that the attempts to bring our old muzzle-load hagl iron ordnance into use by r ifli ng th em h a d no t pro ved successful. Indeed, so unsuccessful have they been, the t it is more than d ou btf u l if th e W ar - o ffi ce w ill resort to t he, costly process o f s t reng th en i ng t h ese guns w i t h wro ugh t e.g fi st_reug _.. i thesheneiron hoops—with ou t w hi c h t h ey cou ld not b e used a t a ll — instead rather of having a sp9;a l gun cast and POWIS' CLAIM ON THE C LIVE FUND...—. T for oexunPdres'O purpose of be ing afterward. ri f the claim are, we b e li eve, t h e phraseology The egrounds of the deed transferring the money to the benefit of the East India Company, for certain purposes and under cer tain conditions. The question appears to be, whether the beneficial interest of the company is transferable to the Se cretary of State for India, or whether it has not absolutely ceased by the extinction of the company as a governing body. We have not the words of the deed before us, but be believe that they limit the grant to such period as the company might continue to possess an army and ships of their own. Whether this phraseology was intentionally employed with etny provision of the abolition of the Rest India Company, or was designed to express permanency (as in oriental documents they say, "so long as the sun and moon shall endure"), m a y b e ma tt er o f historical dispute, but we are afraid that legally the letter is with the Clive family, and the Indian Council will have some difficulty 111 combating their claims.—Overland LOSS OF A STORNOWAY CREW.—A melancholy accident happened at the mouth of Byble Bay, near Stoma way, on the evening of Monday, the 16th instant. Two boats, with their crews, belonging to that township, went out in the dusk to shoot their lines, and when on the way returning were overtaken by a shower of sleet and snow. accompanied by sudden and severe squalls of wind. In the shower the boats were separated, and one of them has not been heard of since, nor has any of her gearing come ashore, leaving no room for doubt that her unfortunate crew—William M'Leod, skipper ; Malcolm M'Leod, his brother; Alexander M'Donald, Malcolm M'Donald, Alex ander Graham, and Donald M'Leod, all belonging to the township of Byble—met with a watery grave in sight of their homes. William M'Leod and Alexander Graham were married : the former leaves a widow and five children, the latter a widow and two children. To believers in " second sight" it may not be uninteresting to mention that about three weeks ago the master of the mail packet between Wick and Poolewe related that he and his crew and passengers, when on the voyage south, and when tacking three or four miles off Byble, heard dreadful cries as of persons drowning. When he gravely mentioned the matter on his return he was laughed at as a super stitious sailor, and he now appeal s t o th e acc id ent of Mon day night—the presentiment of which, he asserts, was heard several weeks previously, and then mentioned. The sufferers were respectable men and excellent fishermen.— Northern Ensign ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN d considera b le e e n destruction Crewe RAILWAY.—An ac c id ent occurred about 4 o'clock on Thurs. day afternoo n a t th e Hartford station on this line of rail cwa a sT y on e t a d w btw and of dW p a re rr p in e g rty ann—dwshiericohueocly impeded the traffic for several hours. It appears a down goods train was in the act of shunting across the up rails to attach some trucks, when the up Scot c h goo d s t ra i n, tra velling at its usual speed, and timed to pass through Hart ford station, came into direct collision with the shunting train, tearing up both lines of rails for some distance. The accumulation of wreck was so great that the work of clear ing the lines was a very formidable undertaking. When the 5.15 p.m. up express from Liverpool arrived at Hartford the lines were quite impassable, and an engine and car riages having been telegraphed for from Crewe the passen gers and luggage were after some delay transferred and sent on to London, where they arrived at two o'clock yesterday morning instead of eleven o'elock on Thareday night. The up mail was also delayed considerably, and letters from the north were not delivered until noon yesterday. Happily no injury to life or limb occurred, and the line was in full working order at an early hour yesterday morning. The midday Scotch mail, due at the Euston station at eleven a.m. yesterday, was two hours late in its arrival, having been delayed by a snow drift six feet deep for some distance on the Caledonian Railw_c_s t y. DEATH OF COL. W 00D, OF LITTLETON—The death of Col. Wood, which took place on Thursday last, at the advanced age of 84, is an event which may well claim a tribute of comemmorative regret. It is by the dazzling abilities of her few men of genius that a nation becomes illus trious and great ; but the quieter and less conspicuous vir tues of her citizens in the aggregate enable her to retain and solidify the greatness thus achieved, and of this larger and useful class the gentleman whose loss we now announce may rank as an honourable and faithful typo. Col. Wood was educated at Harrow and at Oxfo r d. Sh ortly after leaving the University he joined the Ist or Royal East Middlesex Militia as Lieutenant-Colonel, and succeeded to the full colonelcy on the retirement of th e l a t e Earl of Mans field, in April, 1803. This command he continued to fill up to the time of his decease, serving with the regiment at Aldershot when last embodied, and remaining. with it during the whole time that it was stationed there. in 1831 he WAS appointed to the honorary office of Aide de-camp to the Sovereign for the Militia force, an office then first created by William IV., and constituting its holder the representative, in a certain sense, of the whole body of the English Militia. The conspicuous zeal and activity displayed by Colonel Wood in the discharge of his duties would amply justify his claim to this distinction ; but the personal esteem in which ho was held by William IV. must have rendered the honour doubly flattering. This esteem never faltered, and was affectingly recorded in his Majesty's will, by the terms of which Colonel Wood was named executor conjointly with Sir Herbert Taylor. In 1806 Colonel Wood commenced his Parliamentary career being returned for Brecknockshire, which county he repre sented during a period of 40 yeare—retiring from the house in 1847. Colonel Woad, though a Tory, voted for the Ca tholic Relief Bill, tho second roadingof the Reform Bill, and the measures introduced by the Government of Sir Robert Peel. The differences which his support of the principles of free trade occasioned among his constituents at that period of excited party feeling induced him, in the true spirit of conciliation, to sacrifice his own ambition rather than embitter hostilities already rife by a contested elec tion. Accordingly, on the dissolution of Parliament in 1847, he voluntarily retired from the political arena, closing at that date a long and useful senatorial career. In Breck nockshire, the county he represented in Parliament, as well as in the whole principality, Colonel Wood took a lively interest, which did not rest contented with empty profee sions. He married, in 1801, Lady Caroline Stewart, daugh ter of Robert first Marquis of Londonderry, who was for some years principal Bedchamber-woman to Queen Ade laide. lie has left a large family and a wide and influen tial circle of 00RRe1d.9124 to mourn his loaa. .310:A joined Ae A fu withdri The hibited rates ; I burg wi The with ra no mate at B,OOC A dec market depressi to the cl nution. The Ne . at 940 I ditto 8 1 per C Stock hE Busim Moderato per CI Mexican Cents. to 4 per CI per Cent, The C prem. ; t] of Turke Loan, 2f, The ti have heel heaviness British, Eastern ( IZorthern The E Venetian Grand Tr provemen knd Grea Joint S 1 been very pe a k r B ol Colt.tc Par Cen*. Nave 3 per I New 21. per lxdia stoci; Ditto 5 IN Ditt. D.ber Ditto Ditto Bondi bittq ender • DittoEnl Ditto 5} I rut(ili. for Akdis Stook Ditto 5 }. ieh Ditto £5OO. 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