The Sun. — London, England, 1859-12-23 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Under the management of Miss L. Pyne and Mr.SV. Harrison. THIS EVENING (the 2d time) VICTORINE. Messrs. Sant!ey, Haigh, H. Curl, G. Honey, Bartleman, &e. Misses Parepa, Tlairlwall, - - Conductor, Allred Mellon. Ballet, LA FIANCEE. Messrs. W. IL Payne, 11. Payne, F. Payne, 31(111e. Lequine, Pasquale, Pierron, Clara Morgan, and Mons. Vanc Doors opist at half-past 7—Commence at 8 o'clock. T HEATRE -RO YAL, HAYMARKET. LCS6CC, Mr. J. B. Backstane. THIS F,VENING the performances will commence with THE SCHOOL FOR. SCANDAL. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews. With LITTLE TODDLEKINS. And COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. — Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. Re-engagement of the Wonderful Dancer, Mons. Espinosa. First appearance of Mdlle. Marietta Rosetta, Principal Dan sense of La Scala, Milan ; and first time of the Delapierre Family. These highly-talented Children will appear every night. The Royal Princess's Rifles on parade every evening. On MONDAY (Boxing-night) the new drama, HOME TRUTHS. Messrs. a Melville, J. G. Shore, F. Matthews, Miss C. Leciereq and Mrs. Charles Young. After which, a new Christmas burlesque pantomime, by H. J. Byron, called JACK THE JIANT KILLER ; or, Harle quin King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Jack, Miss Louise Keeley—Harlequin , Mr. Cormack -Panta loon, Mr. Paulo--Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams—Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest. Morning Performances on Monday, January 9, 16, and 23 - commence at two o'clock. 'MEW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHL Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Webster. Tins EVENING, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs B. Webster. J. L. Toole, David Fisher, Paul Bedford, Stuart, Billinfr,ton, C. J. Smith, Eburne, Moreland; Miss Woolgar, and Miss K. Kelly. Followed by the successful piece of extravagance, called DINORAH UNDER DIFFICULTIES. Messrs. J. L. Toole, F. Bedford, C. J. Smith, Eburne, and Miss K. Kelly. Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box- Oillee open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats, nor fer bills of performance. All fees to servants of this establishment are strictly prohibited. Acting Manager—Mr. Win. Smith. ROY AL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen gers all hours of the night. To-Morrow, SATURDAY (Christmas Eve) a new Farce, GARIBALDI'S ENGLISHMAN. Messrs. Barrett and C. Young. Followed by a new sketch, A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY. Miss Wyndham and Mr. H. T. Craven. To conclude with the new pantomime of PUNCH AND JUDY. Introducing , Miss Lydia Thompson and the Corps de Ballet. Clown, Harlequin, Columbine, and Pantaloon, and the wonderful Performing Dogs. Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6el; Pit, Is. The Box-ofEce open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at hall-past six ; perform ance commences at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Sole Lessee—Mr. William Cooke, his Farewell Season. THIS EVENING, the grand melo-dramatic production, by Tom Taylor, Esq., called GARIBALDI; illustrating the principal events in the Life of the Great Italian GeneraL To be followed by New and Brilliant Equestrian Changes in the Arena, introducing a vivid Four-horse Scene by John Henry Cooke, as the Neuman Conqueror - More Wonders by the Educated Elephant—Elegant Equitation by Miss Emily Cooke, the Queen of the Circle—Young Alfred Cooke's sur passing evolutions on a naked Courser—Electrifying Feats by the Athenian Athletes, J. H. Cooke and Crouses—Novel Flag Exercises on horseback by Madlle. Jenny—Varied by those heralds of fun, the Clowns, Mimes, and Drolls. To commence at 7. Especial Notice.—Three Grand Morning Representations of the grand new Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN TOM MOODY; or, Old Towler the Huntsman and the Goddess Diana, on Monday and Saturday, Dec. 26 and 31, and Monday Jan. 2, 1860, at Two o'clock each day. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY ,EVENING. Sterndale Bennett's MAY QUEEN. And a Grand Se:ectton from Meyerbeer's new opera of DINORAH. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfield, and E. W. Hackney. Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant sights of the metropolis. ROSA BONHEUR'S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE FAIR. is now added to the already magnificent Collection of Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. TILE WEATHER.-Sux OFFICE, DECEMBER 23. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 42—highest since noon yesterday. 39—lowest this morning and during the night. 40—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.50. WIND, Easterly; light, with dull wet weather. HIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. 'Dug DAY.—Morning, 12h. 57m.—Afternoon, lh. 2lm. To-monnow.-Morning, 41m.—Afternoon, 2h. 6m. e iNl 0, • 4 'S.' Tekt,, 7 ;1 7 1; /y am ` ` hJ ,„ THE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC. 23, 1859. M. DE LA GUERRONIERE has had both a very easy task and a quite impossible task. It was easy to show that the Romagna could not be replaced under the Government of the POPE without viola ting religion, morality, and public policy to an ex tent which could not be tolerated ; but, to show that the poor Romans ought not to enjoy the same privileges a 3 the Romagnese, is beyond the power of the Imperial Essayist or of any other. Our author thinks he has found the solution of a grand diffi culty. There are those who would strip the POPE of his temporal power; there are those who would give him back all he ever had, if they could. M. DE LA GUERRONIERE thinks he has found the happy middle path. He is an impartial arbitrator, and his award is a compromise. Give the Romagnese the liberty they have seized; keep the Romans in the blessed slavery for which they may thank General GUYON and his master. In a part of his argument Englishmen will of course follow him with ease and a certain degree of pleasure. Any elaborate proof that the POPE ought not to receive back at the hands of Europe a territory full of subjects who detest his rule ; that even if he ought, neither can France re-enslave the liberated, nor Austria be allowed to domineer in Italy again, nor Naples venture to interfere, without an Italian civil war with Piedmont ; that, therefore, the Romagna must enjoy what it has gained. Any Well-argued case like this is to Englishmen but a clever performance on a different ground to their own. We have an axiom, and, by that axiom, all is easily settled—that every nation ought to be left to choose its own rulers. The writer himself indeed is compelled to admit this principle; for he mentions how France herself has acted on it, and aided other nations to do the same. Louis NAPOLEON and his amanuensis will find all plain sailing thus far. Of course Arch bishop CULLEN and his noisy followers will ana thematise the writer and his master ; but all sensible Catholics, as well as all other British free men who prize their: own liberties, will agree in the EMPEROR'S views so far as the Romagnese are concerned. But what about the Romans and the master imposed on them by French bayonets ? It must be evident that M. DE LA GUERRONIERE has not ' been able to invent a single argument on which he himself seriously relies. If the POPE is to retain Rome only in virtue of such ar guments as he has brought forward, its doom is sealed. Had the writer dared to speak out, he would assuredly have said, " There is not a sin g le respectable r eason f or enslaving, the Roman s , more than the Bolognese, to the POPE, but if we do not find something like reasons for it, there will he such a hubbub with the French clergy that the Empire itself may be shaken !" IVe have not the slightest doubt that the Imperial author of the pamphlet as well as its literary godfather, are both of precisely the same way of thinking as ourselves, and are quite as prepared as we are to pitch tiie temporal power:of the Porn: into the Tiber. One of our author's grand reasons is, that the head of 200,000,000 of Catholics must not be the subject of any single power. To which the ready answer seems to be " exempt him, th en , by s p ec i a l t rea ty or convention, from subjection to any power in whose territory he sees fit to reside." Say that Rome shall continue to be his residence,—then let his cathedral and all the land and buildings he requires for a residence, for himself and his ecclesiastical staff, be exempted from the jurisdiction of the Government of Rome. Let him have the privilege of ambassadors and other representatives of nations. Let his appeal in any dispute, and appeals against him also, be to all the Catholic Powers. Let his person be sacred ; as being, in a sense, the common representative of Popedom, and let him be supported in a degree of dignity worthy of his position, by the contribu tions of all the Powers who avail themselves of his headship over their faithful ones. The pecuniary suggestion we, and others, had nfade be fore our author proposed it. To us the kind of free dom from subjection we now suggest seems far preferable to the miserable freedom he now enjoys. The freedom to keep his seat as long as the French keep him on it ! We doubt not, on the other hand, that the Romans would be but too happy to acquit him of all allegiance to any civil rulers they might chose, and to confer on all Popedom the convenience of keeping its spiritual head at Rome responsible to Popedom only. There is something ineffably ludicrous in the picture M. DE LA GUERRONIERE draws of the condition of the happy creatures whom he contends must be left in the papal cage. " Destiny," he tells them, places them where they are. Rome would be but a town if the POPE were not a Prince ; now she is the " Eternal City." She is to be " a small corner of the earth free from the passions and interests which agitate other peoples, and devoted solely to the glory of GOD." They are to be a people who will be ruled less by a King than by a father !" (Perugia!) Their "rights will be guaranteed rather by the heart of the Sovereign than by the authority of laws and institutions" (!) —" no army, no forces, no magistracy !" The Roman will be for ever disinherited of that noble portion of activity which in every country is the stimulus of patriotism ; his contemplations must be on " the arts," and " the study of ruins." There " can be no aspiration either to the glory of the soldier, or the triumphs of the orator or the states man"—and much more, in this strain, is the poor Roman indulged with, as the picture of the nega tive beatitude assigned him by his Majesty the Emperor of the FRENO4II. We really do believe that all this must be meant as serious fun. Such a description of men, emas culated by ecclesiasticism, we never saw before. It is the picture of an ecclesiastical harem, in fact, in which the POPE and priests are the immaculate Sultanas and concubines, and the poor Romans the political eunuchs who serve and keep them. If our proposal of making the POPE an independent person, not an independent prince —which, as a petty one, can never be—be not adopted, then we should suggest that the Romans who retain the passions and aspirations " of men should be pro vided with a locality elsewhere, and the old city handed over literally to the priests. Let every woman be excluded the city, and the unmarried POPE reign over a community of unmarried monks and clergy. Archbishop CULLEN will recruit for them. Nothing could well be more thoroughly delight ful, as nothing could certainly be more entirely characteristic, than the principal speech delivered last evening, at the London Tavern, by Mr. CHARLES DICKENS, in his capacity as Chairman at the annual dinner there given in aid of the funds of the Commercial Travellers' School. Listening to an after-dinner speech like that is more warming to the heart, or to those mysterious anatomical regions popularly termed " the cockles" of the heart, than any number of glasses of the fruitiest old crusted port in all the bins of all the cellars of all the wine merchants of Oporto, or, for that matter, of Portugal. It must certainly be far better for digestion. And it is calculat3d, we do sincerely believe, as we do also most earnestly hope, to forward materially the in terests of a very benevolent and praiseworthy in stitution. An appeal thus coming before the Com mercial Travellers of this country ought surely to be received by them as little less than irresistible. It comes in so un-questionable a shape ! So genial, and frankly, and fervently enforcing the claim of these schools upon their kindlier consideration— doing this, moreover, of all good seasons of the year, at Christmas! The excellent Secretary of this very excellent charity has often before now shown his tact in caring for its interests, in appreciably forwarding its prosperity, by his selection of the eminent men who have consented, under his appeal to their gene rous sympathy, to fill the chair upon these annual occasions of mingled conviviality and benevolence. As he (Mr. GEORGE MOORE) himself reminded the assembled guests yesterday when responding later in the evening to the customary toast of his own health as Secretary, they have had there presiding over their festivities in succession such men as Sir BLLWER LYTTON, as Mr. CHARLES DICKENS, and as Mr. W. M. THACKERAY—worId famous in the highest department of the most popular branch of literature. And now once more they have had there as Chairman again over their proceedings that incomparable humourist whose last work of imagination we hardly hesitate to pro nounce as in many respects in our estimation his masterpiece. The author of that exquisitely pathetic " Tale of Two Cities," however, spoke last evening less in the spirit of his latest than in that of his earliest serial production. The frequent parenthetic interlarding of (laughter), (loud laugh ter), and (rears of laughter) which will be observed elsewhere in our impression of this evening, in the accurate report there given of his speech of yester day, will afford sufficient evidence at a glance that the chairman was addressing his audience with the broad humour of the Author of " Pickwick." And when we come among other similar fragments of fun to that record of his about the hotel at Leeds, " where he happened to be staying about seven weeks be fore, where the chamber appurtenances belonged to a period far anterior to the present, and where the night candles were nothing less than mutton trun cheons of the most exaggerated dimensions— (roars of laughter)—and couldn't by any possi ility be blown out." (Great laughter.) When we come to reminiscences like those we have a crowd of other irresistibly ridiculous Inn recollections crowding upon us from his own pages from those all but real realms of laughter ! Mr. PICKWICK in that double-bedded room with the single lady—when his nightcap strings were hopelessly entangled in a knot ! "My friend the waiter" who eat most of the pudding and nearly all of the chops prepared for poor little DAVID COPPERFIEI.D. The Yorkshire School master, in his short trousers, and with his one eye, mending a pen in the coffee-room of the Saracen's Head, Snow-hill! The river-side public-house, in the backyard of which QUILP, performinc , a demon dance in a paroxysm of exhilaration round the dog kennel, nearly drove its occupant into a state of hydrophobia! And so on, for the remembrances throng upon one so abundantly as to threaten to be almost interminable. The facetious likening of his own embarrassments as to the copious supply of ora tory expected from him as Chairman, to the anxiety of mind burthening the life of Mrs. Todgers from the strong passion and insatiable thirst existing among THE SJJN, 4 ' LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1859, commercial gentlemen for gravy, struck, in the grotesque exordium of this comic speech, the key note of all the after laughter: Grievously disturbed at heart by his many ineffectual attempts to obtain the materials for a speech, Mr. DICKENS with an aspect of becoming gravity, recounted yes terday how—" He looked through the advertising pages of Bradshaw—(loud laughter)—and asked himself whether anything could be done with those inviting advertisements of hotels, in which was offered at fixed charges bed, breakfast, and attend • ance, with the additional advantages of a perfect solitude and an Italian atmosphere. (Laughter.) He asked himself despondingly the question whether anything apropos could be got out of the unfortu nate porter who sat up all night, and who never went to bed in the day time ?" (Great laughter.) Whereupon he relates the incident of another excursion to Leeds, besides the one we have before mentioned as having been so ludicrously particularised. Altogether, our great Humorist so effectually and (as usual) beneficently, " set the table in a roar," after the fashion of YORICK, that he contrived to shake out of the pockets of those assembled together around it a a goodly sum of upwards of £l,OOO in subscriptions. May the supporters of this noble charity laugh thus (as Tom HOOD expressed it on the droll title page) from year to year—while the children in the Commercial Traveller's Schools grow fat under the influence of that kindly merriment. LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, DEC. 23. The French Cabinet has, by telegraph, informed the Powers concerned that the opening of the Con gress will not take place before the 19th January next. Yesterday Prince Metternich paid his official visit to her Imperial Highness Princess Mathilde. The Constitutionnel publishes an article, signed by its principal editor, M. Grandguillot, approving in general the contents of the pamphlet "Le Pape et la Congres," declaring, however, a resolve to combat some of the propositions made by the author. DEC. 22. Count Avigdor, representative of the Republic of San Marina at the Court of Paris, has presented a memorandum to Count Walewski, addressed to the future Congress, against the encroachments of Piedmont. The Emperor of the French has conferred the Grand C3rdon of the Legion d'Honneur on the Prince d'Orange. NAPLES, DEC. 22. The Commander Carafa not being Minister of State, but only ad interim Minister for Foreign Affairs, the King has definitively appointed the Marquis d'Antonini as his first, and the Chevalier Canofari as his second, Plenipotentiary at the Con gress. TURIN, DEC. 22. Baron de Talleyrand, who has been appointed Minister Plenipotentiary of France at this Court, is expected here on Saturday. FLORENCE, DEC. 21. M. Buoncompagni arrived here to-day. ROME, DEC. 21. The report that the Pope had claimed the Pre sidency of the Congress for his Plenipotentiary is unfounded. ST. PETERSBURG, DEC. 22. Prince Gortschakoff has expressed a desire that the opening of the Congress should not take place until after the Russian new year (Jan. 13, 1860), as he is detained at the Court on that day by the duties of his office. CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 20. Ahmed Wefik Effendi has been appointed Am bassador to the Imperial Court of Paris, MADRID, DEC. 21. Yesterday 8,000 Moors attacked the Spanish, but were energetically repulsed, and compelled, by grapeshot and grenades, to retreat in great dis order. The Spanish had 51 wounded. Ten men-of-war, formerly stationed at Havannah, have just arrived to reinforce the squadron at Algeciras. A great quantity of provisions has been despatched to the army in Africa. the law, which cannot be abandoned without caus ing enormous loss. Older States cannot proclaim unrestrained free trade; they can only go on gra dually diminishing the tariffs. All the remarks of the Prince on the magistracy and the administra tion of justice are models of magnanimity and cor rect judgment. But the most remarkable part of the message is certainly that which relates to agri culture. It is impossible to pass a fitter eulogy on the labour which transforms the soil, and which, as he says, is the most important of all. He does not content himself with recommending good practical agriculture; he desires that it should also be studied theoretically and be regularly taught, and he ranks a professor of agriculture with or even above a professor of literature. The Prince insists that primary in struction should be universal, and that within a certain time every Roumain should be also able to read and write. In dissolving the Assembly he has no idea of making a coup d'etat, he merely dis misses it, because it has fulfilled the purpose for which it was convoked; he dissolves it that the nation may give the deputies a fresh commission no longer bearing the same political character, but having an authority to occupy themselves with in ternal improvements. The Prince desires that the Roumains, whose self-government has been recog nised, should march on in a path of progress and civilisation worthy of brave and intelligent people. As for the press, he urges upon it to enlighten the Government on all the great questions of organisa tion which will have to be settled, and to give up all personal polemics, which often prevent the realisation of great projects. To sum up, we can affirm that we fully approve of the noble sentiments which the Prince has nobly expressed." ST. MARTIN'S HALL. On Wednesday evening "The Messiah" was per formed at St. Martin's Hall, under the direction of Mr. Hullah. It was in every way creditably exe cuted, and a decided improvement in many instances on the same oratorio of last year at that institution. Miss Martin has rectified some of the faults which marred the effect of her fine voice on her first ap pearance before the public. Miss Banks was de servedly applauded on her rendering of the beauti ful air—" Come unto Him all ye that labour." Miss Dolby had not so much assigned to her as formerly, but she displayed her well-known fine taste in the ex pressive words assigned to her. Mr. Thomas dis tinguished himself in the grand airs—" Why do the Nations so furiously rage together," and, also, " The Trumpet shall Sound." The audience was much gratified by the appearance of Mr. Sims Reeves, who sang with his usual masterly expres sion in sacred airs. It is to be regretted, however, that more justice, to say nothing of taste or good feeling, cannot be displayed by those who have the privilege of hearing such good music at so cheap a cost. After the solo—" Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron," there was a universal demand for an encore, which Mr. Sims Reeves at once intimated was impossible, by laying down his music. The more respectable portion of the public, of course, desisted in their demand, but the uproar created by the uncultivated hearers was disgraceful, especially when it is remembered that it was a sacred performance they were assembled to hear. It is an absurd thing for people to imagine that singers can always encore the most elaborate pas sages that entail great exertion to suit their fancies, and all lovers of fair play will condemn the custom, and those who create such a disturbance as that on Wednesday, which for some minutes drowned the chorus, do not exhibit their love for music, but their want of manners. The grand chorus in the oratorio —" Hallelujah, for the Lord God Omnipotent Reigneth" was very effective. " Lift up your Heads" was also ably executed in its difficult ar rangement. Miss Martin was not equal to the task of rendering " I know that my Redeemer liveth," but she exerted herself creditably. One of the most striking passages in the arrangement of the oratorio, which is sustained by the quartet and chorus in the last part, " Since by Man came Death," when the chorus take up "By Man came also the Resurrection of the Dead," was very satisfac torily rendered. On the whole great credit is due to the managempt of the director, and the general impression of the performances of the evening was evidently a favourable one throughout the numer ous audience. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. The subject of the Christmas entertainment at this theatre has been selected, by Mr. T. Talfourd, from the popular German tales of the Brothers Grimm, and is entitled King Thrushbeard, the Little Pet and the Great Passion ; or, Harlequin Haft:, and the Fairy Good Humour." The fol lowing is an outline of the plot :—The Princess Imperiosa, only daughter of King Pater-familias, is as fair as the day, but as proud as Lucifer, and of • most ungovernable temper. Her extreme beauty has tempted many Princes to ask her hand in mar riage, and her father, delighted at the chanc3 of ridding himself of a child who makes his life a misery, appoints a day for the suitors to attend and urge their pretensions. The day arrives, and the suitors arrive, but the princess indignantly re jects them all, and treats them so insultingly that they leave the palace in disgust. The king, tired of yielding to her caprices, and driven to despera tion by the thought of her remaining always on his hands, at length " plucks up a spirit," and vows that she shall marry the first beggar who presents himself. A beggar minstrel passing at the moment, the king insists upon Imperiosa marrying him, and the ceremony is supposed to take place immedi ately. The beggar takes his wife on the "wedding tour," and they arrive at length at his wretched home. At first she indulges in her usual haughty . behaviour ; but charmed and subdued by her hus band's good humour and affection—treatment to which she had hitherto been unaccustomed—she begins to entertain towards him a respectful attach ment, which speedily ripens into love ; her cure is complete, and the Shrew is tamed. The story of this extraordinary marriage having reached the ears of the king of the country where the supposed beggar and his wife live, his curiosity is excited, and he commands them to appear at court. We are now introduced to the palace, where, the wife being separated by accident from her husband, is ushered into the presence of the king, in whom she at once recognises one of the princes whom she had so in sultingly rejected. The king feigns to believe that the Princess Imperiosa appears before him seeking a divorce, and grants her supposed suit, This elicits from her a confession of the happy change which has taken place in her disposition. Hafiz, delighted, throws off the beard he has worn (which, from its being shaped like a thrush's bill, had obtained for him the soubriquet of Thrushbeard), and the princess is rewarded by discovering that King Hafiz, the Beggar Husband, and Thrushbeard are all ono and the same person. A general reconciliation takes place, and Imperiosa is reinstated in the brilliant position she is now fitted to adorn. _ It is believed the accessories of the chief scene (designed and painted by Mr. Wm. Calcott) possess an originality of invention, with completeness and costliness of execution, surpassing anything of this description hitherto presented on the boards of a theatre. The harlequinade is the joint production of Mr. George Ellis and Mr. Cormack ; the principal cha raflters in which will be represented by the Messrs. J. and H. Marshall, Mr. Naylor, and Miss Rosine. TIIE FRENCH SQUADRON IN CHINA.—The French squadron at present in the Chinese waters is composed of the following vessels •--The Nemesis, bearing the admiral's flag, 52 guns • ' Dido, 40 • ' Capricieuse, 32 ; Dordogne, 6 ; Gironde, 6; Marne, 6 ; Meurthe, 6 ; Du' mace, 6 ; Saone, 6 ; I)uchayla, :32 ; Catinat, 12 ; Phlegethon, 8 ; Primaugret, 8 ; Laplace, 8 ; Marceau, 6 ; Regent, ; Alarme, 4 ; Dra-- gonne, 4 ; Fusee, 4 ; Mitraille, Norzagaray, 2;. Lily, 2 ; Rose, 2 ; I'ehio, 2. The Forbin, now on its way to China, carries 8 guns. SINGULAR ACCIDENT FROM THE FROST.—DUring, the present week three of the cast iron columns which sup port a roadway, fronting warehouses, at the St. Katherine's Docks, burst with a loud report, similar to a piece o f ord nance, and fra gmen t s o f metal Were found at a considerable distance. On examination it was found that the columns had become partially filled with water, which entered at the top, and there bein g no outlet, th e f ros t caused the explo sion as described. Since the occurrence the whole of the cast iron columns, which are in fact the support of a large range of buildings, have been perforated at the bottom, in order to allow egress for water. INDIA. By extraordinary express, in anticipation of the Overland Mail, we have received our letters and papers from Bombay to the 26th ult. The follow ing is from the Bombay Gazette of that date : " The news from China has come almost to a dead lock ; and expectation for the time takes the place of ascertained facts. The latest papers that we have received notice the arrival of the 67th Regiment from Calcutta, and the 3d Buffs were daily expected. Various are the rumours which have come to us from the North-West as to troops being held in readiness for China, but nothing de finite has yet reached us. The receipt of 'cue dis patches from the home Government regarding the enlistment of the discharged soldiers for service in China was followed by a general order, in which the Governor-General stated that he had 'received au thority from her Majesty's Government to grant the boon of two years' service to those men of the local army who had not taken their discharge under the General Order, No. 883, of the 20th of June last,' and that his Excellency had also received authority to permit 'such men as have taken their discharge, and are not compromised by part taken in any act of insubordination connected with the question of discharge, to enlist for service in China in any of her Majesty's regiments of the line, or her Majesty's artillery or marines, which may be now in China, or proceeding thither ; soldiers so enlisting will re ceive a bounty of 50 rupees, upon the condition that they enlist for ten years' service.' This order means a great deal more than the words imply. It means, in fact, that the men have just claims for bounty, and it may in time to come be a source of embarrassment to the authorities should the example of the discharged soldiers be followed by others for the purpose of obtaining the redress of grievances, whether real or imaginary. "If a war with China should be decided on, it would not, perhaps, be prudent to enter on it with a force numbering under 15,000 men. We have no doubt the feelings of the people in England must be averse to again entering into a new war, after all the exertions made in the Crimean campaign, the suppression of the Indian rebellion, and the expen diture of money and life which both entailed. But admitting that we have not committed our selves to a contest out of which we could not retreat until our objects were attained, it is a question if the Chinese Government will be brought to terms and be induced to carry out the conditions of the treaty by any other means than by force of arms. " The actual state of the rebel army in Nepaul can perhaps be better estimated by a calculation of what it must be, than by our reports. The rumours are perfectly contradictory; it is now stated that the Nana intends to maintain his position—then that he intends to retreat. One report is that he is dead, another that there was a consultation in his camp, and that the several leaders agreed" 't t e)" unite their forces and place them under his orders. Side by side with these reports are details of the dispersion of the Nana's followers in all directions, and the miserable plight to which they are reduced for want of food and clothing. One thing is certain—that our troops have taken the field against the rebels ; the 54th Queen's have proceeded to the Goruckpoor fron tier, and one or two engagements have already taken place, in which as usual the rebels retired, betaking themselves to jungles and out-of-the-way places. It is now stated that Jung Bahadoor is going to assist us in expelling the rebels from his territories. About eight or ten thousand Goorkha troops, wi th 40 guns, have already marched down the hills, and Jung will join the army at Bootwal. If this be the case, the discomfiture of the rebels will be a quick and easy work. " According to a letter to the Englishman from the Nepaul frontier, it is believed that the rebel force in that quarter consists of about 6,000 of all kinds, of which about 1,000 are so wars ; this number includes also camp fol lowers, women, and children, so perhaps besides the sowers, only 3,000 sepoys remain. The I greater number of these are encamped in the Dhang and Dukur valleys, over the first range of hills, but still small bodies are dotted about at the edge of the Terai jungle all along the Nepaul fron tier. They have still remaining with them about two elephants' load of Government ammunition. The sepoys have had no regular pay from their chiefs since they left Lucknow, but until Nana Rao's death they were always regularly fed. A few Christian drummers from the mutinous regiments are said to be with the rebels, but they have turned Mahomedans and live with the sepoys. Some re ports state that there is a European sergeant with them, who also has turned Mussulman, but this has not been corroborated. From further inquiries which have been made, there is no reason at present to believe that there is any European man or wo man now alive in the rebels' hands, as some papers have stated. " In Central India, it is feared that it will be necessary to carry on the war in the jungle. A body of rebels, under the notorious Bhagojee Naik, lately found their way to a village about 12 miles from Nassick. About 100 of the Ahmednug gur and Nassick police, led by Mr. Souter, went after them, and succeeded in capturing the leader, who was hanged on the spot where he killed Capt. Henry a year ago, and in killing another chief and 51 men. Minor insurrections are going forward in other parts of India. The hill tribes in the Deccan are giving some trouble ; and a party of Rohillas have been creating disturbances near Hingolee. Troops were sent after them, and they were sur prised in a ravine a few miles from the cantonment of Hingolee. Fifteen of them were killed, includ ing their leader, the Rohilla Jemader Shered Khan. The Rohillas have also advanced on some ♦illages near Hyderabad, and we fear that their move-. ,rants will not be checked without considerable bloodshed. "At last the official papers on the subject of the claims to compensation for losses sustained during the mutiny have been published. The following scale is to be adopted in the case of those claimants who have sustained losses in buildings, factories, and crops, including merchandi-e and stock in trade . If the claim do not exceed 2,000 rupees, the sum awarded will be half the loss proved. If it exceed 2,000 rupees, the stun awarded will be half the first 2,000 rupees and one-third of the rest. The other class includes cash and jewels, and articles of per sonalty, with respect to which the compensation is limited to one-third of the admitted loss, the largest amount in the case of any single claimant being fixed at 5,000 rupees.' "The 1 enaltie4 War are comina• out in new ' financial demands. Taxes and loans are followed by plans which the Government has in contemplation to reduce its expenditure. Such measures are urgently needed. The revision of the salaries of civil servants and reduction of military charges havebeen talked of for some time, and in all probability will be carried out. The question of the reduction of the native army has been referred to England, and until the home authorities have decided this point we must be content to wait. But there is no doubt the military department is capable of considerable abridgment; and if its expenditure be not reduced we have no hopes of any restoration of the balance between the revenue and expenditure in India. We may then expect a permanent deficit of about eight millions sterling annually, with increase of interest on the capital borrowed to supply the deficiency. " It is satisfactory to see that the British army in our presidency is in an excellent state of health. The latest returns show a considerable diminution of hospital cases. It is also satisfactory to find that the Government is giving attention to the establish ment of barracks in the hill Sanatoria of Northern India. Amid all our discords and conflicts, it is balm to the vexed spirit that one touch of genuine unaltered nature makes us all kin, and brings us all to join in the same work. The families of our soldiers have long been uncared-for—have been left to struggle unassisted with the necessities of their position in this country. We ore now raising asy lums for them on elevated hill stations, and esta blishing schools for the education of their children.' , The Bombay Standard says :—" A powerful force of artillery is to leave England early in the year for Egypt, the transport of which from Suez be entrusted, we are told, to the Indian Navy. W e believe that this artille r y f or ce will consi PA of close upon 1,000 men. The accounts are do conflicting that, perhaps, least s a id th e soonest men d e d . Th ere is a decided turning of the tid e hero in favour of keeping quiet if we can. honourably do so. We seem, however, to he pretty deeply committed to do something, the following General Order having appeared in the Calcutta Government Gazette of the 12th inst. : " CAMP BUNTEERAII, Oct. 29. " No. 7.---" With reference to the General Order by his F_;xcellency the Governor-General, dated the I :2th October, 1859, it is hereby announced, that the option of enlistment for her Majesty's troops in China, or proceeding there, is to be allowed to the men of the local forces who have taken their dis charge, without reference to their having applied for discharge before or after the issue of the General Order, No. 883, of the 20th June, 1858. Only those are to be excluded from enlistment who have com mitted any act of insubordination connected with the subject of discharge. " The bounty of 50r. to men enlisting for 10 years' service in her Majesty's corps in China, or proceed ing thither, is to be paid on their enlistment, and a fresh kit will be issued to them. "Discharged men of the local forces re-enlisting as above will not be allowed to reckon their former services in the local forces. " Time-expired men of her Majesty's regiments serving in India who have taken their discharge, and men who have obtained discharge by indulgence, are invited to re-enlist, according to the terms of the Act of Parliament of 1847, for limiting the time of service in the army as respects their service in her Majesty's Infantry Regiments, or Artillery or Ma rines serving in China, or proceeding there; and they will, on so re-enlisting, receive a bounty of 50 ru pees. They will reckon their former service if they claim it on re-enlistment, and each man will receive a fresh kit. It is hereby notified for general information, that the rate of bounty now offered to time-expired and other discharged men of the Line, is offered to them under the special circumstances of the service in China now about to take place; and that the grant of this rate will not in any way affect the rate issuable to men who may hereafter renew their ser vice under ordinary circumstances in her Majesty's army. The number of men availing themselves of this offer is very insignificant. It is pretty clear that only those men who can do nothing else will volun teer. The great mass of those who have taken their discharge seem to have had enough of " sol• dieriAg." FRANCE. The thaw, which commenced in Paris yesterday morning, still continues, with light rain. The ther mometer stands at six degrees (centigrade) above freezing point. The last week has been a disastrous one for the olives in the south of France. In the neighbourhood of Grasse both olive and orange trees were completely frozen on Friday last. This is the more to be regretted, inasmuch as in October last the olive crop was considerably reduced by the worm and by a south-east wind, which caused a considerable quantity of the fruit to fall off the trees. In fact, the damage caused to the olive crap by the frost last week is so serious that it cannot yet be estimated. The ship-of-the-line Duguay-Trouin, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Larrieu, Commander-in-Chief of the naval division on the western coast of Ame rica and in the Pacific Ocean, has left Brest for Callao, in Peru. The Dug uay-Trouin is a screw ship of 500-horse power and 90 guns. This is the first line-of-battle ship which has been sent on so dis tant an expedition. She is to replace the steam frigate Soveraine, first chosen for that service. M. Edmond Lesseps, appointed French Consul-Gene ral to the Peruvian Republic, takes a passage on board the Duguay-Trouin. It is still hoped that the ship of the line Duguesclin may be got off the rocks near Brest. The Debats publishes the following :—" The port in the Red Sea recently ceded to France is Zoulla, on the coast of Habesch, at the bottom of a fine bay near the spot once occupied by Adulis, the most ' frequented port of the Red Sea in ancient times. The coast of Habesch is that part of the Abyssinian seaboard which extends from Cape Nose to the Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb, Cape Nose itself being situated at the boundary of Upper Egypt, opposite the Isle of Emeralds, of which the Viceroy of Egypt has recently taken possession. The town of Zoulla contains an industrious maritime population, said to be superior to any other on the coast. The port possesses excellent anchorage ground, well shel tered from the north-east winds, which alone enter the bay. Zoulla is also the most favourable port for communicating with the interior of the States of the Emperor Theodore, who reigns over the greater part of Abyssinia; moreover, it commands the Aden route. The cession of this port to France is said to have been made in strict conformity with established usages." THE BOURSE, Dec. 22.—The opening of the mar ket was buoyant, but became less so during the day. Threes improved from 70f. 50c. to 70f. 75c., but are now at 70f. 65c. Mobilier varied from 857 f. 50c. to 850 f. ; Lyons, 946 f. 25c. to 942 f. 50c. ; Orleans, 1,420 f. to 1,422 f. 50c. ; Southern, 540 f. to 535 f. ; Austrian, 573 f, 73c. to 568 f. 75c. ; Lombard, 581 f. 25c. to 577 f. 50c. The market continued heavy to the close, when the following were the last quotations:— 4} per Cents. .... 96 90 Do. end month .. 97 Credit Fonder 722 50 Belgian 4} . 99 50 Piedmontess (5) B5 50 Roman B3 75 Austrian Spanish Threes lime Debt 43 75 3 per Cents 7O 3 Do. end month 7O 35 Bank Shares 2885 -- Credit Mobilier .. 840 Do. Account 811 25 BAIL WAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern . 972 50 .. 972 50 New ditto... Lyons and Msditerranoan 937 50 .. 937 50 Geneva 515 .. 540 Southern Western 575 .. 577 50 Eastern Sardinian 422 50 .. Austrian Lombard 575 .. 673 75 Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 10c. ; money, 25f. 9e.; three months, paper, 24f. 95c. ; money, 24f. 931 e. JASSY. The journals of Jassy having brought the text 9f an address delivered lately by Prince Couza in dis missing the Legislative Assembly of that country —a document so unusually long that it somewhat resembles in that respect the annual Message of the President of the Utiited States—the Siecic pub lishes an analysis of the Prince's speech, which it praises highly. We subjoin our contemporary's remarks, as they give an idea of the principles by which the - Moldo-Wallachian ruler desires to govern his States:—" Prince Couza, without servilely imi tating the institutions of other countries, seeks in each nation what will be the best suited to the Roumanians. He energetically desires the liberty of commerce, and we perfectly comprehend its fit ness for a new people, among whom every branch of industry has yet to be created. He has not to re rights of capital employed under the protection o f gard either the important interests or the acquired THE PUNIAUB. A horrible murder has been committed. The New Times thus announces the sad fact : " A telegram has been received in Allahabad from Lahore, conveying the melancholy intelligence that Captain R. Mecham, of the Bengal Artillery, and lately commanding a light field battery in the Pun jaub, was murdered on the night of the sth inst., while travelling in a dooly from Bunnoo to Khant. His assailants were apparently a party of thieves, five or six in number: His escort was to have been four men, but there Were only two with him at the time, and they behaved badly. The occurrence took place near Shittuner. "The above are the only particulars at present known. Captain Mecham was on his way to Alla habad, having been appointed to succeed Captain Prinsep as private secretary to the Lieutenant- Governor, and his arrival was almost daily expected. " Since going to press we have learned that four of the murderers of Captain Mecham hays been traced. They are the followers of a notorious Wuzzeera robber, named Zingee, from Billund Khali.' COMMERCIAL. BOMBAY, Nov. 26. The English mail of the 18th ult. arrived here on the 131 inst., and the China mail of the 20th ult. on the 19th inst. Imports have suffered a general depression, in consequence of the large arrivals of piece goods and twists, which has glutted the market. IMPORT MARKET. COTTON MANUFACTURES.—The decrease of stooks and the heavy supplies offering have caused a decline in the prices of piece goods. There is at present little or no de mand, and holders aro anxious to sell at a considerable con cession of prices. WOOLLENS.—There is very little improvement in the inquiry for these goods. A few sales have taken place at previous rates. YARNS.—The arrival of heavy supplies has checked busi ness to a great extent, and the market closes dull. Mule and water twist have receded in price, and only a small amount of business has been transacted. Dyed yarns are quiet. Thread is in demand, and has advanced in price. METALS—Copper is firm, with the exception of braziers', which has improved in demand, and is quoted higher. Iron is also firm, and British bars show an advance in value. Spelter has declined. Tin plates are dull, as also lead. Other metals are steady and quiet. EXPORT MARKET. COTTOIL—Demand is very brisk, and prices have ad winced. Stocks are generally cleared away as soon as they reach the market. A very largo supply is shortly expected, however, which will bo sufficient to meet the growing de mand. A fair amount of business has been dono for the China market. WooL.—There is more activity at present, and large pur , chases have been made at higher prices by native shippers Supplies are coming in freely. OILSEEDS.—A change may at length be reported in the tone of this market. There is an active inquiry for linseed, but no actual advance in price has taken place, owing to the supplies being liberal. There is a slightly improved inquiry for rapeseed, and prices are firm. Teelseed is dull. HEMP.—There is a demand for local consumption only. COPPEE.—Mocha is scarce, and still maintains a high value. Malabar is in moderate stock at our quotations. PEPPER neglected. _ _ M ADDER ROOT in little inquiry at previous rates. OPIUM.—The market continues,stowly. Prices rule to day at 1,320 rs. per chest. During the past fortnight the steamers Pekin and Bombay Castle carried respectively 650 and 1,400 chests of opium to China. FnEmwrs.—Since our last report a large amount of tonnage has arrived, and the rates of freight have conse quently again receded. The present quotations to Liverpool are 17s 6d to 20s for cotton, and 15s to 17s Gd for seeds. 'I o London, 17s 6d for seeds, while for cotton the rate is nomi nally 20s. To China, Rs. 10 per candy aro offered. There is very little doing for other ports. MONEY MARKET AND EXCLIANGE.—The Money Market inclines to be stringent, but as yet the rates of interest remain unaltered. Government Securities are less in favour, and lower in value. Five per Cent. Loans are quoted 88 per cent., and Four per Cont. Loans, 75 per cent. ; the Now 51 per Cent. Loan is quoted 95 per cont. The Exchange on London has materially advanced during the fortnight. The race opened at 2s Id, and has gradually risen to 2s 1/d to 2s 1 3-16 d for Bank Bills, with other quotations in pro portion; for Documents, 2s 14t1 to 2s 1 5-16 d, On China. at 60 days' sight, Re, 222 per 100 dollars, AMERICA. GALWAY, THURSDAY, DEC, 22. The Circassian arrived to-day at 1 p.m. She left. New York on the 9th, and St. John's on the 14th, bringing mails, 220 passengers, and a large cargo. She brings the master and crew of the Moffatt, for Liverpool, from St. John's, Newfound land, abandoned within 300 miles of Newfound land. The President's Message had not been delivered on the 13th. A ballot for a Speaker had not been taken on the Bth. The Persia arrived out on the Bth, and the Anglo- Saxon on the same day at Portland. The Santa Fe mails of the 14th of November had arrived at Independence. There were but a few friendly Indians. The route news from Hayti to the 12th of Novem ber had arrived, It is unimportant. There was a great sympathy with the South at meetings at Boston on the Bth. Mr. Edward Everitt was the chair speaker. Official returns show that for the year ending the 13th of June the exports of cotton were 361,434,923 dols. The stock-market at New York was firmer, in consequence of the arrival of the Persia and of re turning ease im money at 6 per cent. on loan. A rise of 4 pr,r cent. in Illinois Central Shares. New York Central Shares closed at 83 dols. 80c. werr, generally steady. 6,000 bales cotton , chiefly transitu,n were purchased. Prices - „.‘ HOLIDAYS AT THE CHANCERY AND LAW O FFICES. —To-day (Friday) the Chancery-office closed for the holi days to the 9th of January, and the common law office s will close to-morrow for three days. M. de Lenardiere, member of the Legislative Body for the Deux-Sevres, has just died suddenly. in P eril " gammon with Marshal Baraguay d'Hilliers, and He had passed part of the day at his club, playing back hour for dinner arrived he expressed a wish to w h e n the Having been informed that the number of places reserved were filled up, he went to a restaurant in the neighbouriled;: and had just taken his seat when he fell from his e " a. " and expired. THE ALLEGED FOUNDERING OF TIIE GREAT BnITAIN.—LIVERPOOL, Thursday.—The general belles entertained here of the safety of the Great Britain has 11 °W been turned into certainty. Twice has she been spoke n since she passed Tuskar, on the 12th inst., and her position dine there. and direction were such that it would be foolish to even dream of her being in the neighbourhood of the Western Islands. On the 13th she was spoken by the Martha pelt arrived at Falmouth, in lat. 48 N., lon. 11 W The 11" ; day, the 14th, she was again spoken by the barque qfPn' arrived at this port from Sulina, in lat. 45 30 N•P 12 16 W., which adds to her report in reference to the Britain's third day out from this po h r e t, G r eat Great Britain, "All's well." a l n 4t d h he ve r as p indicates that up to that time she had made a good ru n ' NEW POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS BETWEEN Eußori! AND AMERICA.--WO recently referred to the arrange mentssa that have been made for the conveyance of 0 ," between Great Britain and the United States by u.• Canadian Line of mail steamers, which call at Queen town ; and to the probability that Belgium and Gernianl would speedily follow with France in the adoption of ° lig position indicates then route for their correspondence. Last week the Ho n. Sidne/ Smith, Postmaster-General of Canada, accom panied by Mr , Griffin of the Canadian Post-office, and Si r Cusack Roney, Toward to Brussels where, by the introduction of Lord w ere Howard de Walden, the British Ambassador, th e y immediately put in communication with M. Masni, the Director-General of the Belgian Post-office. There is little wi doubt that Belgium will forward its correspondence with the United States by the Canadian route as well as h9i, tli s : Cunard steamers. At Berlin the deputation has been reee'vr by M. Von der lleydt, the Minister of the Interior, and the negofiations in progress, if they come to a succe s sful ter , mination, will cause the whole German Postal League IT: eluding Prussia, the northern States of Germany, use Bavaria, Saxony, and the South) to adopt the new arrange n ' mente. A semi-weekly mail and passenger communicatio will thus be established between a large portion oho ur r, and the whole of the American continent througt t year. A " History of the Commercial Crisis of 1837 and 1857 and 1858," by Mr. D. M. Evans,_ has just been published by Messrs. Groombridge. Mr. Evans, us a P re. vious work, had recorded the crisis of 1847, an d amore re cently had described some of the most etriking ee l and frauds," of the intervening period. The pr e 'T,,,, volume, therefore, may be considered to bring this sPeci of narrative down to its latest date, especially. as ,i t z; braces an account of the Stock Exchange panic oz ' The and there is a copious index extending over 10 year& bably be former work; met with a largo sale, which will pro 0 sustained in the present instance. Such, it inaY b e se ll P T:- will be the case, for they are calculated to exercise a I n a . some influence. When it is found that commercial out takes and delinquencies cannot be slurred over thelne n e 2 !„ e the temporary excitement they have occasioned shall s!".. passed away, so as to leave the actors free to figure agelna7 eminent operators in the financial world, but that there at: accessible records on the subject to which every ene ems wally turn, the maxim that honesty is the bes t policy gill " cel l ' an additional support. At the same ti me an effect eq in salutary will be produced by the d etails of those ev eats ur. which the sufferers came out o f the stru gg l e with hon o The partners in some of t he Swedish and other firms that were forced to suspend in 1857 may point to the accent"' of the manner in which they met, and, in many cases, triumphed over their difficulties, with a satisfaction no less intense than the shame that must be experienced by the favoured clients of the 'Western Bank of Scotland and of the other joint-stook establishments by which the ruin was brought about. THE TEMOPRARY ARRANGEMENT AT SAN JUAN T sr,Ase.—The following .is the proposition submi tted b y General Scott to Governor Douglass, for int occupa tion of the island of San Juan :—" Without prejudice to the claim of either nation to the sovereignty of the entire island of San Juan, now in dispute, it is proposed that each shall occupy a separate portion of the same by a detach ment of infantry, riflemen, or marines, not exceeding ono hundred men, with their appropriate arra ymen on the said s, only for the equal protection of their respective co untr island, in their persons and property , and to repel any descent on the part of hostile Indians." General Scott added in his note, that any addition or modification a r g il gested by Governor Douglass would mee t with res p ectf oonsideration. Lieutenant-Colonel Lay returned with the following reply :—" Memorandum—His Excellency Go vernor Douglass authorises me to say, having yet no tints to consider the proposition offered by Lieutenant-Gen eral Scott, or to consult with his official advisors here, he is it a glance satisfied that no obstacle exists to a completelY amicable and satisfactory adjustment continuing through' out the period of diplomatic discussion respecting the title of the Island of San Juan, either upon the plan suggeste d by General Scott, or some other that may be mutual agreed to after advisement." A copy of this snemorandu rn was retained by Governor Douglass, after being read an approved by him, and signed by Lieutenant-Colonel Lay- MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.—On Wednesday fore noon Mr. 111 'Laren, farmer, Park, near Alloa, and who had only entered upon his lease of the Park Farm at Martini:oe last, was found dead in one of his outhouses, suspended by the neck with a cord affixed to the joisting of the roof. 1 11 !„.. MPLaren was unmarried, was very generally respected, an d formerly leased a farm in the vicinity of Glasgow. Two FATAL ACClDENTS.—Yesterday afternoon, Mr. Bedford, the coroner for "Westminster, received infor mation of the death of Mr. James Gattrell, an extensive builder, who resided at No. 1, Green-street, North Audler street, Grosvenor-square under the following s irellui. stances :—lt appears that' the premises of Messrs. Therese Horton and Sons, tailors, No. 6 in the before-name d s treet, are under repair. The deceased was in the act of going II the ladder, when the top of it suddenly broke, and he Je to the ground on his head, fracturing his skull in such e ' shocking manner, that he expired shortly after being taken home.—Another fatal accident occurred to Mary Ann page aged six years residing in Monmouth-court, Monmouth street. The deceased, it appears, drank some boiling watai . out of a tea-kettle standing on the hob. She was converse. to Charing-cross Hospital, but died of the injuries. TIIE CONVICT NORMINGTON.— This unhappi youth, now under sentence of death for the murder of amore Broughton, is gradually manifesting a state of mind more becoming his situation. The chaplain of the castle, the Rev. J. C. Thompson, has been frequent in his visits to Nor: te mington, and his ministrations are attentively its to _. On Tuesday night, a letter was written to the prisoner,: parents at his dictation, he being unable to write' • d r. this communication ho requested that no unnecessary gr,„ should be felt for him, and stated that he wa s resigisteer: his fate. It is said that he has made a confession 01_17; at" guilt, and implicated some other man as a partici p t oo. his crime, but we cannot vouch for its accuracy. A r to this effect is in circulation.—Leeds Mercury. A the NON-COMBUSTIBILITY OF CRINOLINE.--"- t . George meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society last night In • emoline street Hall, Dr. Stevenson Macadam exhibited es— elution dress, one-half of which had been immersed in Inibusti of sulphate of ammonia, in order to test its non -co .noline, bility. On a light having been applied to ?ce tbn the part of it which had not been steeped in t was at once enveloped in flamo ; but tho only effeGt which , This i r ''" the light had on the other part was to char it. tied considered a satisfactory experiment ; and it was sible that as ammonia was only 2 d. per p ound, it was ace gs 0_ to the humblest classes. It was stated that the con, ,' D i m e used in the royal establishment was steeped in a total l y different solution ; but that its cost prevented its geTf".. use, and that the cheaper solution was equally fficassew• —.Lain burgh Witness. COUP DEFENCES AT LIVERPOOL. — Th e Defence k mates, appointed at a rece nt meetin g of the Mersey_ -VT: Board reported yesterday (Thursday) that they had 11 ,8 %; correspondence with the War- o ort, and had granted a site a for the erec ti o n of at the north end of Canada Dock. The military author , tile! also wished for sites on the Prince's Pier, and in the :g u n k bourhood of the Sloyne, but the committee did Ilk to the them at all suitable, and had referred the matter bac . , Wiir-offiee for further consideration. The proeeedinga P.! the committee were confirmed, and a discussion ens u ed, which the general opinion appeared to be that the G overn' I. went officials were going the right way to work or de fending the port efficiently. and IVIELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE. —Betw een two 0. three o' clock on Wednesday mo rnin g a vessel was seiseriteo hibiting a signal of distress near the shoal a short d e. . o e s e , from the beach at Aldlerough. Fourteen gallant t filw each being provided with a life-preserver, immediaoeielyeuoo pro ceeded to launch the lifeboat in order to render hogenrs to page After vainly endeavouring for more than three oe zed, and the shoal, the lifeboat struck by a heavy sea,. Nine d Nine of the was nearly three minutes before she leavingrighte the re crew succeeded in getting into her ag awinAhout being able maining five floating among the waves, two of the reell to afford them any assistance. AftFzf: el whilebut they .quickly were washed ashore apparently li e Cable. w icked ul? recovered. Shortly, another, named . an that his jaw was broken, still alive, when it was found . in two (Green, a Trinity' ho soon after expired. The re:a:lLnp h ic g ked up. Green's dean pilot, and Pearce) were dead b en always first to engage will be a great loss, he having the e coast. At dayllght t in any dangerous enterprise on known ws not in any hilln e ; was found the brig, soon she to k and stoat alter m a nes a dints danger, and very out to sea. i I 1 1 i ac l'i ar 11 Do. 14 181 3, Do, Nei hal h a , ni a No] Se., tal c Gre Can eou Col Cop It azi a „ NIA D, 4118