The Sun. — London, England, 1859-12-22 00:00:00

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY ;EVENING. Sterndale Bennett's. MAY QUEEN. And a Grand Se 'ection from Meyerbeer's new opera of DINORAH. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchtield, and E. W. Mackney. 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 lIOIISE 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. THE WEATHER.—Sux OFFICE, DECEMBER 22. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADS. 46—highest since noon yesterday. 36—lowest this morning and during the night. 39—this day at noon. __ _ BaaonErrErt-29.58. WXND, Westerly; light, with fine winter weather. • HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAY.—Morning, 12h. 3m.—Afternoon, 12h. 21m. To-moRROw.-Morning, 12h. 57m.—Afternoon, lh. 21m. ir ,:f 1.-; •4? . . • , `'* 1.:-.)L . \ ~' ' • . t..‘ ':, ' 4 . ' .-ti" „,".% : - ... ... A , '.. V •• .. ~... . z' 4.. - ::.-:.,-,Rz , ;- -., ~,...- ~, A.: i 1.14 (- .-', 'll l'e44 - ~ t... _ - . _ , . i • ..... THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, DEC. 22, 1859. The Catholic laity of Great Britain and the laity of the nation at large are practically of one mind. In September of this year the Foreign Secretary of England announced at Aberdeen amidst universal applause that—ltalians ought to conduct their own affairs as they please, and that Britain ought to take no part in any Congress unless the non-employment of foreign forces to coerce the Italian States was a fundamental condition. This view the citizens of Glasgow have also adopted, and actually forwarded to Lord .Tomt RUSSELL i an Address, urging him to abide by his Aberdeen de clarations. Now the " Catholic laity 'of Great Britain" have also published their address ; and the " Catholic laity protests against any infraction. of the Holy Father's rights as an Independent Sove reign." They go on to protest against Congress disposing of the "Holy Father's territories, impos ing on him changes in his laws or administration, or aiding his rebel subjects." Well, now, What more do the citizens of Glasgow wish ? All Eng lishmen untainted with allegiance to any foreign Power have but one wish,—to leav2 princes and subjects to settle their own affairs. We want to impose no conditions on his Majesty the POPE any more than on his Holiness the PorE. Let him be as majestic as he is holy if the three millions who are called his subjects wish ; but let him be holy without being majestic if so they will have it. We think it the business of the three millions and of no one else. Now, we ask the "Catholic laity of Great Britain" if this be their meaning ? If it be— well ; they are worthy of the name of British citizens—worthy of those whose ancestors decapir tated one despot and banished another, and who, to this day, are resolved to be governed only by laws which they have assisted in making, and to pay only taxes to which they have by their representa tives assented. But if this be not the meaning of many of these Catholic " laity," as we strongly suspect to be the case, then we only tell them that they are unworthy of the country which gave them birth. When we look at their long document, at their five reasons, and the formal protest with which it concludes, we take it to mean that some how or other the Estates of the Church, as they are called, should be kept for the Church—that in, for the POPE, as the head of the Church. The spirit of all their lengthy declamation and argument is, that the POPE is to be Pope as long a§ time shall endure ; that he needs to be temporarily in dependent of any earthly power ; that those who have hail the ill-luck to be born in the territory his predecessors got by one device or another are bound to remain his slaves ; and that, by some means, these unhappy citizens are to be compelled to remain in this condition. We know of nothing so parallel with this pre tentious " declaration" as the justly infamous Ame rican Declaration of Independence. That document, full of grand sentiments about the rights of men, and all that sort of stuff, has one clause which says explicitly nothing about slavery, but which clause was meant to legalise slavery ; and it has been the foundation of that infernal system which covers the south of the United States, and whose last wicked ness was the execution of JOHN BROWN. Just so this document no where denies, in words, the rights of Romans to the same liberties as the " Catholic Laity"enjoy here ; no where says " Romans always shall be slaves;” but its principles will make them so. _Romans cannot worship Gov according to the light of their conscience, as every Catholic is free to do here ; Romans cannot abrogate a law by which any worthless wench or medical man can enable the po lice to kidnap a Jew's child; Romans cannot enact, repeal, or modify a single law, cr object to a single tax, as every Catholic by his representative can do in England. Romans, in fact, are at the mercy of the one man whom a set of other men place over them, without one spark of liberty in the whole of their political arrangements. Yet this is the system which the " Catholic Laity" of Engllnd would per petuate. They want to keep at 'Rome a prince whose subjects are as truly political slaves as the. negroes are socially slaves ; and who, if they at this, shall have power to treat them in Teragial: style, as slaveholders hunt fugitive negroes and hang their friends. Will any of our Catholic readers deny that this is the real meaning of the document ? If we have given a plain interpretation of old COBBETT'S sort, is it not a true one ? If so, we call on Cathelics to consider what they are doing. We well know that there are thousands of excellent men, excellent citizens, and thorough Britons among them ; but why do these men allow a noisy few to represent them in this country and in Europe ? These respectable gentlemen know well that ecclesiastical government is an antiquated thing. When clergy ' men were the only men, alniost, of learning and general information, they might properly aspire to positions near the head of the Government, they might, even as abbots and bishops, be passable ad ministrators of small territories. But that day is past never to return, and the POPE is but the liv ing representative of a class who are now political fossils. He has no confreres. He is perfectly out of harmony with his age. As a plain matter of fact, his subjects are prepared to respect him as their Bishop, if he did not aspire to be their temporal autocrat. Catholics may be assured that that is a position he cannot hold. Even should he retain the royalty of Rome, which we hope he will not do long, he must be controlled in that capacity by his own subjects. If he is to be independent of other Powers, he cannot longer be independent of his people. They must be liberated, POPE or no PorE. We dare a Catholic elector of Britain to say they ought not to be liberated. What Englishmen then demand is—what those 'who sign the declaration would like to say in ap pearance, but are afraid to say explicitly—let Rome be kept to herself. Let non-intervention be pro claimed henceforth as the law of Europe. Let the French soldiers be withdrawn, let Austrians and Neapolitans be warned off. Let the POPE be pro hibited front enlisting foreign mercenaries against his subjects if they are not to hire foreign troops against him. And then see what the result will be. The silly cant about the Romagnese being rebels and so forth is unworthy of notice. They have never bowed to his legates except when forced by Austrian bayonets. The POPE has been the rebel and the traitor in the Romagna. He it is who has used the detested foreigner against his own subjects. He it is who would not bow to the per fectly lawful wish of his subjects to be governed as they thought best. He it is who has insisted on a divine right to enslave them to his legates and de crees, by the very un-divine process of filling their towns with Austrian butchers. Our remedy for all is very short. Leave the Romans to themselves ; and if the Catholics of Europe want a splendid es tablishment for their bishop at Rome, let them contribute the funds out of the exchequers of Catholic Europe, but let Romans no longer be en slaved to a despot, that the Catholics of the world may have a petty despot for their bishop. Lord PALMERSTON, down at Romsey, is less of the Premier than of the Paterfamilias. His speeches there yesterday, and he delivered several, are all overflowing with bonhommie. He is there in his genial bearing as he stands before his bucolic audience somewhat like ROUBILLAIC'S marble effigy of SHAKSPERE in the vestibule of the British . \,luseum, with his outer raiment, as it were, neg ligently disarranged and carelessly unbuttoned. His oratory, if it can be dignified with the name, is in deshabille. He takes the kindest possible view of everything and everybody—viewing all around him perhaps the more willingly as couleur de rose, because talking at the moment quite collo quially and conversationally sub rosa with his friends and neighbours. Reading him thus it is impossible not to be infected with his good humour. His smile must have been reflected in the faces of almost all those who listened to him—even the more supercilious, even those constitutionally cur mudgeons. The occasion was simple enough, namely, the re currence again of the annual ceremony of the dis tribution of prizes awarded for long servitude, for ploughing, for thatching, and for almost every kind of agricultural employment by a local institution established under the title of the Itomsey Labourers' Encouragement Association. First of all, in the mere distribution of these little prizes, Lord PAL MERSTON had a word of kindness and encourage ment to proffer, not only to those who were the actual recipients, but to those also who had merely tried, and tried in vain, to be among their number. In doing this the Premier was full of " wise saws and modern instances." In handing the prizes about, he says of them quite frankly to his unso phisticated auditors, " I need hardly say that they are not rewards, because no man is so foolish as to think that these tokens of good conduct which are given are intended to be substantial rewards for the conduct on account of which they are be stowed. That," he adds, "is not the principle upon which decorations, and memorials, and tokens are given to mankind for their meritorious con duct." Then follows his illustration—" The soldier who hazards his life upon the field of battle, and who has attracted the attention of his superiors and his comrades by distinguished and heroic bravery, is rewarded by a cross, very insignificant in intrinsic value, but which he wears on his breast as a token and a record of that good conduct which has obtained for him that which is a real reward, namely, the esteem and respect of all around him." And, again,—" In the same way in other classes of life, men who performed distin guished services to the State are rewarded by a little ribbon, which they wear in their button-hole, or over their shoulder ; but nobody imagines that half a yard or two yards of red or blue ribbon are in themselves intrinsic reward. They are a token and a record of that good conduct in the life of those on whom they are bestowed, which testifies to man kind that they have deserved well of their country. Therefore, my friends [Delightful words, surely, these, for every hob-nailed Strephon who hearkened to them—associating him, poor Wight, for the mo ment, with soldier and statesman, with medals and blue ribands, stars, and garters !] I am delighted that so many of you have received these tokens of your good conduct in your respective vocations, and I am glad to say that these rewards have been given for almost every kind of service which an agricultural labourer is capable of performing." After a great deal more to the like effect, "Again," says my lord Viscount to the wielders of the bill hook and sickle, listening around him, "Again, I congratulate you upon the prizes you have obtained, and I have no doubt that next year many who have not been successful competi tors to .day will put themselves upon the list of prizemen." So much far the morning ceremonial of distribution. Afterwards, later in the day, came the more convivial meeting of the member 6 of the associa tion, presided over and addressed time and again as genially as ever by Viscount PAL9IERSTON. Loyal toasts, quaffed with all the honours, in due succession, then follow, in right sequence, the more personal proceedings at these kind of festi vities, crowned, according to custom, by the toast of the Health of the Chairman. )13ut ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GA RDEN• Under the management of Miss L. Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison. THIS EVENING (the 2d time) VICTORINE. Messrs. Santley, Haigh, H. Cord, G. Honey, Bartleman, &c. Misses Parepa, Thirlwall, &c Conductor, Alfred Mellon. Ballet, LA FL&NCEE. Messrs. W. H. Payne, H. Payne, P. Payne, Mdlle. Lequine, Pasquale, Pierron, Clara Morgan, and Mons. Vandris. - - - - Doors open at half-past 7—Commence at S o'clock. T HEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lesgee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING the performances will oommenee with THE ROAD TO RUIN, And PAUL PRY. Com nence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr.. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, ,the nelv drama,' entitled HOME TRUTHS. Messrs. G. 'Melville, J. G. Shore, F. Matthews, Miss C. Lec'ercq and Mrs. Charles Young. Followed by A WONDERFUL WOMAN. Mr. A. Harris Shore, Frank Matthews, and Miss €l. Leclercq. After which. Mons, Espanosa (Preraier Danseur Comique), Will appear, with Madlle. Nariquita, assisted by the Lathes), the Corps de Ballet, in Le Grand Pas' du Dervish &Paula, as danced by him 150 consecutive night's at the Theatre de la Porte St. Martin, Paris. To conclude with NURSEY CHICKWEED. Messrs. H. Widdicomb, Meadows, 11. Saker ; Miss L. Keeley and Mrs. Weston. *MEW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHI. .L Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. I:en.i. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs B. Webster. J. L. Toole, David Fisher, Paul Bedford. Stuart, Billingtou. C. J. Smith, Eburne, Moreland; Miss Woolgar, and Miss K. Kelly. Followed by the successful piece of ext'avagance, called DINORAH UNDER DIFFICULTIES. Messrs. J. L. Toole, p. Bedford, C. J. Smith, Eburne, and Miss K. Kelly. Doors open at half-past six—Commence at ,seven. Box- Office open from 10 to 5. No charge for seCntring seats, nor fer bills of performance. All fees to servo nts of this establishment are strictly prohibited. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEA TRg, 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 Nemman 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 Athlete, J. 11. Cooke and Crouses—Novel Flag Exercises on horseback by 3fadlle. Jenny—Varied by those heralds of fun, the Clcomme nc owns, M times, and Broils. To e t 7. Especial Notice.—Three Grand Morning . Representations of the g - rand 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. THI SUN, LONDON, I- THITRSDAY EVENING; DECEMBER 22, 1859 LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : THE BOMBAY MAIL. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Vectis, with the mails from Bombay, arrived at Marseilles at noon yesterday. The mails left for London at 3 p.m. The letters will be delivered on Friday. ADEN, DEC. 8. The Imperador (with 926 knots of the Indian cable on board) arrived. All well. Passage, 67! days. The Captain Coorce (query, Cook ?), from Kurrachee, with the East India Company's dis banded troops, beating into Table Bay, grounded. After landing troops and throwing cargo over board, with the assistance of the Imperador, she floated again next morning (Nov. 13). When the Imperador left the troops were re-embarking, and the ship reported making no water. PARIS, DEC. 21, 12.5 P.M. The Bourse opens very firm. Rentes, 70f. 50c. 3.28 P.M. Rumours of an intended reduction of the interest on the Treasury Bills (Bons de Tresor) were cur rent to-day on the Bourse. It was also said that the Moniteur of to-morrow will contain a report of the Minister on general financial affairs. Funds have materially improved, and the final quotation of Rentes, 70f. 65c., shows an advance of nearly d since yesterday. BERNE, DEC. 21. In reply to a memorandum addressed by Switzer land to the Powers composing the Congress, the majority have expressed themselves favourable to the admission of Plonipotentiaries of Switzerland at the time when the Congress deliberates on the neutrality of the province of Savoy. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY. The Moniteur contains the following list of ap pointments to different embassies :—" Secretaries —Baron de Reinach, at Stuttgardt ; M. de Bour queney, at the Hague ; Count de Courcy, at Canis ruhe; M. Borely, at Athens ; Count de Breteuil, at Florence; and Count de Breda, at Darmstadt. First Secretaries—Marquis de Chateaurenard, at London; M. Fournier, at St. Petersburg; Count de Bondy, at Madrid ; Marquis de Cadore, at Rome ; Count de Mosbourg, at Vienna ; and M. Rothan, at Frankfort. Second Secretaries—M. Dollfus, at Berlin ; M. Saillard, at Munich ; Count de Gabriac, at Rome ; Marquis de Piennes, at Naples. Third Secretary—the Marquis de Moges, at Rome." A duel came off to-day between two well-known personages, who had some dispute at the Grand Opera. One gentleman was slightly wounded, when the antagonists shook hands. THE BOURSE, Dec. 21.—The market has been very firm, with improving prices, owing to a re port that the rate of the Bons du Tresor will be lowered, and the financial report of M. Magne pub lished to-morrow. Threes, after having been at 70f. 45c., improved to 70f. 65c. ; Mobilier varied from 845 f. to 852 f. 50c. ; Lombard, 570 f. 50c. to 578 f. 75c. ; Austrian, 571 f. 25c. to 575 f, ; Orleans, 1,417 f. 50c. to 1,430 f. ; Lyons, 937 f. 50c. to 945 f. ; Southern, 535 f. to 537 f. ; Northern, 971 f. 25c. to 977 f. The following were the last quotations:— Ai per Cents. .... 96 75 Credit Foncier 722 '5O Do. end month .. Belgian 4} — 3 per Cents 7O 5 1 Piedmontesa (5) .. 85 50 Do. end month 7O 65 Roman B4 Bank Shares 2BBO Austrian — Credit Mobilier .. 852 50 Spanish Times Do. Aceewit ..... 851 25 Home Debt 43 50 even then we have that climax capped by the Chair , 1 man (after the fashion of " one cheer more, and a 6 •ood one") by another toast yet—" The Press." The toast of the Press—from the lips of the PRE MIER Mark, now, the manner of its giving by Lord PSLMERSTON :—" I rise," he says, " to do homage to that which may properly be said to be one of the wonders of modern civilisation. I mean th e Press." And he then goes on to remark, with unstinted words of panegyric, " If any man corn pares now a newspaper published in the last cen tury with one of those wonderful sheets we read every day, the contrast is the most striking that the mind of man can imagine. The quan tity of information, the talent of disserta tion, the amount of news of every kind which we now find in almost every newspaper we meet with, is really one cf the most striking proofs of the pro gress which the human intellect has made in the days in which we live. It may really be put in competition with the steam-engine and the electric telegraph. But," continues Lord PALMERSTON, " there is one part of the functions of the Press which, beyond all others, has improved of late years." [Beyond the time, let us suggest to the memory of Lord PALMERSTON, when a certain Irish reporter in the Gallery of the House of Commons, a reporter named FINNERTY, waking up suddenly from a nap—himself much " bemused with beer"—startled the echoes of that august assem bly by bawling out, " Your health, Mr. Speaker !' and " Mr. Speaker, I wish to propose a toast !" But I call on Mr. Speaker for a song —having himself incontinently thereupon to be taken into custody by that silk-stocking Argus the the Sergeant•at-Arms !] Recalling those times to popular rembrance, " I have heard," said Lord PALMERSTON, " that towards the end of the last century there was a man of the name of WOODFALL, who used to publish debates ; and how did he do it ? It is said that he used to go to the gallery of the House of Commons, listen attentively with his face in his hands to what passed, go home, drink two pots ofporter, go to bed, get up next morning, and from his dreams and his recollection make out what he called a report of a debate. Now-a-days, so marvellous is the ability, and so wonderful the rapidity with which re porters take down what men say, that if speakers are not very careful the reporters take down what they had much better not have said. I remember a very worthy M.P., an Irish M.P., Mr. RICHARD KEENE, who once complained that the reporters in the gallery had not done full justice to a speech he had made the night before. The reply he received had perhaps more of sharpness than civility in it, for it was—' Mr. KEENE, we made the best speech we could for you, but if you are not satisfied with our endeavours, the next time we will report what you do say, and whatever you may think of it, we suspect your friends will hardly relish the infliction.'" " Now," observed Lord PALMERSTON, in continuation with an admi rably well-deserved encomium upon the Parliamen tary reporters, " it is quite marvellous to see the accuracy with which debates in the House of Com mons are reported. When the speeches are such as are calculated to attract attention, they are reported word for word as they are uttered, and how it is possible for the human hand to follow with such rapidity and such exactness I am at a loss to conceive." And then with a personal reminiscence reminding one of an incident in the life of " David Copperfield," the Premier observed, " I once, as many others have done, began to learn shorthand, but I confess that I found out two difficulties, which turned out to be quite insurmountable. The one was to write it, and the next and greatest to read it when written." Remarking, in conclusion, "I beg now to pro pose that institution to which the progress of civilisation and all the interests of the country are so deeply indebted, The Press." It is surely significant of the state of things in England to hear cordial words like these fall from the lips of the chief Minister in our constitutional Government. HAYMARKET THEATRE. " Valentine's Day ; or, Harlequin and the Fairy of the True Lover's Knot," is the name of the story of the pantomime at this theatre. Old Bishop Valentine, who lived a long time ago, was a great friend to all true lovers, and it was his custom on the 14th February to call together his proselytes, when each selected a fair maiden, to whom he pre sented a letter, containing pictures and verses in token of regard, and which was afterwards called a valentine. There was in those days one Slyvanus, a young woodman, who tenderly loved Belphoebe, which means fair Phosbe, and who was one of the pret tiest milkmaids of that fairy and pastoral age. She loved him in return, but their enemies, Scandal, Gossip, Hate, Spite, Malice, Venom, Jealousy, and Tell-tale Tit, did all in their power to separate them, and would have succeeded but for the fairy Truelove, who, like the good Bishop, looked upon the lover with great favour. One day after they had quarrelled, and all through their enemies, the fairy sought to reconcile them by inviting them to a festival in her spring flower abode, on the eve of Valentine's Day, but even there Scandal and her crew intruded, and placed before the eyes of the lovers such false illusions that they parted, intending never to meet again. The Fairy then sought the Bishop in his little chapel, to ask his advice in what way to frustrate these evil influences, when he recommended that Sylvanus and Belphosbe should each send the other a loving valentitie, and that others, very ugly and ridiculous, should be sent to Scandal and her party. This being done, the two lovers, on opening their valentines, were dis mayed to find them contain nothing but hateful words, the contents having been changed by their enemies. Scandal and her companions, on receiving their valentines, and seeing them so ugly, accused one another of having sent them, at which they fell to fighting amongst themselves. Belphcebe and Sylva nus were now made so wretched that each resolved to love some one else, and so he with another maid, and she with another swain, sought the Bishop to be married ; but he, knowing the cause cf their separation, refused to do so, and desired them to be present at the opening of a valentine that he had sent to the fairy Truelove, when she would possess such power as would enable her to defeat their foes. Following this advice, they went to see the sight, at which also their enemies were present, when the Fairy thought of a plan to confound their machi nations, when Sylvanus and Belphoabe became united and lived happily ever after. The magnificent scenery of this story has been painted by Mr. Frederick Fenton, who, in the opening of the Fairy Valentine, has pro duced effects never before attempted in any theatre. The pantomimists will, as heretofore, con sist of the unrivalled Leclercqs ; while the hark quinade contains every hit at passing events, the concluding scene will he her Majesty's channel fled in the order of battle during the great storm in November last, painted by Mr. O'Connor. From the high character of the pantomimes at this theatre, the holiday visitors may be certain of an unusual treat. PAINFUL ELOPEMENT.—The wife of • Mr. J.ll. Gurney, M.P. fur King's Lynn, has eloped with one of the family domestics. The lady has a fortune in her own right of £500,000. Proceedings have been commenced with a view to a divorce. TllE CIIISHOLM SUCCESSlON.—lntelligence has been received intimating that James Sutherland Chisholm, Esq., has been served heir of entail to the Chisholm estates. —lnverness Courier. The Postmaster-General gave notice yesterday that her Majesty's ship Urgent will be detained until the 26th inst. ; supplementary ship mails for the Cape of Good Hope will therefore bo made up to be sent by the BAIL WAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto 865 .. 867 50 Lyons and Mediterranean 942 50 .. 943 75 Geneva 540 .. 547 50 Southern Western 576 25 .. 582 50 Eastern Sardinian 425 .. 425 Austrian Lombard .. ... Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 10e. ; money, 25f. 9c.; three months, paper, 21f. 95c. ; money, M. 931 c. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 17th have reached us. A royal decree reorganises the Council of Agri culture and Manufactures. The Gazette publishes a list of promotions and rewards (generally crosses in the Spanish orders) accorded to officers and men who had distinguished themselves against the Moors. It also states that the troops in Africa have cleared completely the road for a distance of two leagues, so as to allow the artillery and cavalry to advance in safety. Beyond these two leagues lies a vast plain leading to Tetuan. According to letters which reach Paris, the Hun garian movement is assuming wider proportions daily. The political agitation is neither purely Protestant nor revolutionary; it is an effort to pro claim the nationality of Hungary, and restore her old privileges and rights. THE PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, ThURSDAY MORNING. The Sultan steamer, Captain Vincent, from Lis bon, December 17th, and Vigo 19th, has arrived. No communication with Oporto. She brings £3,630 in specie, 2,462 chests oranges and general cargo. The Hon. Mr. Howard, late British Minister at Lisbon, and family, are passengers by the Sultan. Lisbon exchanges, at three months, on London, 531 to a ; Paris, nominal, 531 ; Amsterdam, 44 ; Hamburg, 471. The electoral contest on New Year's-day absorbs the attention of political circles at Lisbon. CENTRAL AMERICA. GREY TowN, MOSQUITO, Nov. 2. The intelligence that Walker had left the United States for Nicaragua was brought here by the American Commodore in the Roanoke, from Colon. Her Majesty's ship Valorous, Capt. Aldham, C. 8., immediately started up the coast, calling at Blew fields, Corn Islands, Omoa, and returned with out having seen the general's expedition. The United States ship Sabine was left to guard the port, the St. Louis was sent to the mouth of the Colorado River, and the Commodore departed for Colon. There is no news from Nicargua, or of the French Canal Company. In Costa Rica the coffee crop is being gathered ; it will probably amount to 200,000 quintals, and is in excellent condition. The election for president will take place about the end of November. Mariano and Francisco Montealegre (brothers of the provisional president) are candidates, also Yglesias and perhaps General Castro. The Provisional Government is not yet firmly established, and there is a great chance of another revolution within the two next months, the object of which will be the recall of the exiled president Mora. Some 20 of the prominent citizens of San Jose have been arrested on a charge of conspiracy to overthrow the present state of affairs. IRON SCREW COLLIER COMPANY.—A meeting of this company took place yesterday, to confirm or otherwise a proposil ion for selling their fleet of 12 vessels for £60,000, which, allowing a deduction on account of certain charges, would leave about £47,000 clear. After sonic discussion a show of hands was taken, but a ballot was eventually de termined upon. It was mentioned that the profits of the past half-year have been about £9,000 or £lO,OOO, but this result is considered exceptionally favourable. There is about £23,000 in hand, subject to be reduced by £B,OOO, or possibly twice that amount, for a claim decided against the company in a court of law. The original capital of the ppll - was £126,000, in £2:5 shares, of which £44,000, or £9 per share, bas been returned to the proprietors, leaving the present capital at £BO,OOO. ;144431 LEIGH HUNT.-A REMONSTRANCE. (From All the Year Round.) " The sense of beauty and gentleness, of moral beauty and faithful gentleness, grew upon him as the clear evening closed in. When he went to visit his relative at Putney, he still carried with him his work, and the books he more immediately wanted. Although his bodily powers had been giving way, his most conspicuous qualities, his memory for books and his affection, remained ; and when his hair was white, when his ample chest had grown slender, when the very proportion of his height had visibly lessened, his step was still ready, and his dark eyes brightened at every happy expression, and at every thought of kindness. His death was simply exhaustion : he broke off his work to lie down and repose. So gentle was the final approach, that he scarcely recognised it till the very last, and then it came without terrors. His physical suffering had not been severe ; at the latest hour he said that his only uneasiness was failing breath. And that failing breath was used to express his sense of the inexhaustible kind ness he had received from the family who had been so unexpectedly made his nurses—to draw from one of his sons, by minute, eager, and searching questions, all that he could learn ab ou t th e l a t es t vicissitudes and growing hopes of Italy—to ask the friends and children around him for news of those whom he loved—and to send love and messages to the absent who loved him." Thus, with a manly simplicity and filial affection, writes the eldest son of Leigh Hunt in recording his father's death. These are the closing words of a new edition of the "Autobiography of Leigh Hunt," pub lished by Messrs. Smith and Elder, of Cornhill, revised by that son, and enriched with an introduc tory chapter of remarkable beauty and tenderness. The son' s first presentation of his father to the reader, " rather tall, straight as an arrow, looking slenderer than he really was ' • his hair black and shining, and slightly inclined to wave ; his head high, his forehead straight and white, his eyes black and sparkling, his general complexion dark; in his whole carriage and manner an extraordinary degree of life," completes the picture. It is the pic ture of the flourishing and fading away of man that is born of a woman and hath bat a short time to live. In his presentation of his father's moral nature and intellectual qualities, Mr. Hunt is no less faith ful and no less touching. Those who knew Leigh Hunt will see the bright face and hear the musi cal voice again, when he is recalled to them in thiS passage :—" Even at seasons of the greatest de pression in his fortunes he always attracted many visitors, but still not so much for any repute that attended him as for his personal qualities. Few men were more attractive in society, whether in a large company or over the fireside. His manners were peculiarly animated ; his conversation, varied, ranging over a great field of subjects, was moved and called forth by the response of his companion, be that companion philosopher or student, sage or boy, man or woman ; and he was equally ready for the most lively topics or for the gravest reflections —his expression easily adapting itself to the tone of his companion's mind. With much freedom of manners, he combined a spontaneous courtesy that never failed, and a considerateness derived from a ceaseless kindness of heart that invariably fasci nated eveji strangers." Or in this :—" His animation, his sympathy with what was gay and pleasurable, his avowed doctrine of cultivating cheerfulness, were manifest on the surface, and could be appreciated by those who knew him in society, most probably even exaggerated as salient traits, on which he himself insisted with a sort of gay and ostentatious wi?fulness." The last words describe one of the most captivat ing peculiarities of a most original and engaging man, better than any other words could. The reader is besought to observe them, for a reason that shall presently be given. Lastly—" The anxiety to recognise the rights of others, the ten dency to ' refine,' which was noted by an early school companion, and the propensity to elaborate every thought, made him, along with the direct argument by which he sustained his own convic tion, recognise and almost admit all that might be said on the opposite side." For these reasons, and for others suggested with equal felicity, and with equal fidelity, the son writes of the father, "It is most desirable that his qualities should be known as they were, for such deficiencies as he had are the honest explanations of his mistakes, while as the reader may see from his writings and his conduct, they are not, as the faults of which he was accused would be, incompatible with the noblest faculties both of head and heart. To know Leigh Hunt as he was, was to hold him in reverence and love." Them quotations are made here, with a special object. It is not, that the personal testimony of one who knew Leigh Hunt well may be borne to their truthfulness. It is not, that it may be recorded in these pages, as in his son's intro ductory chapter, that his life was Of the most amiable and domestic kind, that his wants were few, that his way of life was frugal, that he was a man of small expenses, no osten tation, a diligent labourer, and a secluded man of letters. It is not that the inconsiderate and forgetful may be reminded of his wrongs and sufferings in the days of the Regency and of the national disgrace of his imprisonment. It is not that their forbearance may be entreated for his grave, in right of his graceful fancy or his political labours and endurances, though Not only we, the latest seed of Time, New men, that in the flying of a wheel Cry down the past, not only we, that prato, Of rights and wrongs, have loved the people well. It is, that a duty may be done in the most direct way possible. An act of plain clear duty. Four or five years ago the writer of these lines was much pained by accidentally encountering a printed statement " that Mr. Leigh Hunt was the original of Harold Skimpole in Bleak House." The writer of these lines is the author of that book. The statement came from America. It is no dis repect to that country, in which the writer has, perhaps, as many friends and as true an interest as any man that lives, good-humouredly to state the fact, that he has, now and then, been the subject of paragraphs in Transatlantic newspapers more surprisingly destitute of all foundation in truth than the wildest delusions of the wildest lunatics. For reasons born of this experience, he let the thing go by. But, since Mr. Leigh Hunt's death, the state. ment has been revived in England. The delicacy and generosity evinced in its revival, are for the rather late consideration of its revivers. The fact is this : Exactly those graces and charms of manner which arc remembered iu the words we have quoted, were remembered by the author of the work of fiction in question, when he drew the character in question. Above all other things, that " sort of gay and ostentatious wilfulness" in the humouring of a subject, which had many a time delighted him, and impressed him as being unspeakably whimsical and attractive was the airy quality he wanted for the man he invented. Partly for this reason, and partly (he has since often grieved to think) for the pleasure it afforded him to find that de lightful manner reproducing itself under his hand, he yielded to the temptation of too often making the character speak like his old friend. He no more thought, God forgive him ! that the admired original would ever be charged with the imaginary vices of the fictitious creature, than he has himself ever thought of charging the blood of Desde mona and Othello, on the innocent Aca demy model who sat for lago's leg in the picture. Even as to the mere occasional manner, he meant to be so cautious and conscientious, that he privately referred the proof sheets of the first number of that book to two intimate literary friends of Leigh Iluat (both still living), and altered the whole of that part of the text on their discovering too strong a resemblance to his " way." Ile cannot see the son lay this wreath on the father's tomb, and leave him to the possibility of ever thinking that the present words might have righted the father's memory, and were left un written. He cannot know that his own son may have to explain his father when folly or ma li ce' cau wound his heart no more, and leave this task undone. THE REPORTED Loss OF THE GREAT BRITAIN. —The story of the foundering of the steamship Great Bri tain off the Western Islands, which took its rise from the finding of a canister at the mouth of the Mersey, contain ing a paper that she had foundered, is now looked upon as a hoax. Indeed, Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co the agents of the lino to which she belon gs , have placarded the town with bills offering a reward of £lOO to any person or per sons who will prosecute to conviction the perpetrator or perpetrators ; and there is a universal desire and hope that he or they may be discovered, and severely punished. ALARMING ACCIDENT.—On Monday evening shortly before six o'clock, the smack St. Laurence, from Greenock, was coming towards the quay, and, when oppo site the ferry steps at the Queen's Island, was seen by a number of Mr. Ilarlin's workmen who wore leaving the island in two large boats, to be bearing closely upon them. There were between 60 and 70 individuals in the two boats, and it is stated that N,hen sighting the smack and seeing their danger, they shouted t , those in charge of the vessel to bear off, which was not done. However, the smack van into one of the boats, which contain: el between 30 and 40 men and boys, and almost cut her in two, nearly the whole of those in the boat having boon thrown into the water. A number of the parties swam ashore, and, with the assistance of two or lane boats, all were, happily, rescued. Two men, however, are, wo understand, very seriously injured, one man, named Thomas Magee, having sustained a compound fracture of the leg by the collision. The captain of the St. Laurence, whq will be brought up at the police court on T uesc l ß y morning, states that he wa,s stee:ing his vessel close to the island to keep cleat GI a sheet of ice—that, he did not hear the calls of tlio people in the boats, and that , the collision wrA purely accidental,—Ve/A0 211114" Whig. • .._ BURNING OF TILE AMERICAN SHIP MASTIFF. The following is an extract from the log of the British ship Achilles, Hart, on her voyage from San Francisco for Sydney (N.S.W.), stating the loss of the American clipper ship Mastiff by fire, and the saving of 208 lives—viz., Captain Johnson and lady, five gentlemen (cabin passengers), the ship's crew (27 in number), and 174 Chinese—and 100,000 dols. in treasure. " On the 12th day of September, 1859, the ship Achilles, Captain Henry T. Hart, sailed from the Golden Gate, San Francisco, for Sydney, New South Wales. The pilot left the ship at 7 a.m. Sunday; the wind being southerly, the captain shaped a course to clear the Farrallones and passed clear of them at 1.30 p.m., the wind then from the southward. At 8 p.m. wind hauled mere westerly; tacked ship to the southward, with a moderate breeze. At daylight on the morning of the 13th saw a large ship bearing N.W. ; exchanged signals, and found her to be the Amercan clipper ship Mas tiff, that had sailed from San Francisco 18 hours be fore us, both ships steering to the southward, with a light breeze from the westward. At daylight of the 14th, wind westward, the Mastiff in sight about 10 miles astern, steering the same course. On the 15th, at daylight, the Mastiff in sight, about the same distance astern. At noon our latitude obser vation was 30.30 N., and long, by chronometer 128.20 W., the Mastiff off our weather quarter ; the wind hauled more westerly; took in topmast and topgallant studding sails, and hauled the ship close to the wind, intending to speak the Mastiff, but she passing ahead, did not do so. " At 4.15 p.m. the said ship was about two miles ahead; Mr. Harley, the second officer, reported to the captain that the Mastiff had her colours up in distress, and that she was on fire. He immediately went forward and found the report true, and that smoke was coming out of her stern ports and the after part of the ship. The captain called all hands on deck, and took in all the small sails, made the ship snug, sailed for the burning vessel, and lay-to close to windward, sent the quarterboat, second offi cer, and four men to assist in saving life. At about 4.30 p.m. the gig belonging to the Mastiff came along side, with the captain' s lady, five gentlemen (cabin passengers), and three Chinamen. It Was only after their coming on board that the position of all on board began to be realised. To witness the prostrate and bleeding forms of the three Chinamen told the means that had to be resorted to to keep them from crowding and swamping the boats. By this time they succeeded in launching three small boats (they having failed to get their longboat over the side), which, together with our being so close to the burn ing ship, seemed to restore some degree of quiet amongst the Chinese, who could be seen in the sea hanging by ropes to the ship's side. The five gentlemen, cabin passengers, who were saved were : —R. H. Dana, Esq., C. C. Harris, George Clifford, T. H. C. Richmond, and M. Schonbrun. As soon as all the Chinese, 174 in number, were got on board, Captain Hart sent instructions to save pro visions, but so rapid did the flames spread that it was found impossible to save a particle. We then received the crew, 27 in number, seven boxes of treasure valued at about 100,000 dols., one iron chest, two chronometers, a small quantity of cloth ing, a mahogany chest, marked ship Mastiff,' in gilt letters, and a few fowls and pigs. At 6.30 p.m. the ship was in flames, and at 7 p.m. the main and mizenmasts fell over the side. We then hoisted on board two boats, and let two go adrift, having so little room on deck, and the ship being full of cargo. By this time the ship was in flames fore and aft, and only now indeed could be realised the awful doom that awaited all on board that ill-fated ship, had not an all-wise and merciful Providence made us the instruments of their preservation. After consultation with Captain Johnson as to which way it was best to proceed it was agreed that we should sail for the Sandwich Islands, and land them at Honolulu. We then made sail with a light breeze from the N.W. Mr. Dana, one of the cabin passengers by the Mastiff, read prayers, and all joined in returning thanks for the miraculous deliverance of so many human beings. The following morning muster was made, and the Chinamen counted, when one was found missing. On inquiry amongst them, it was ascertained that after the general rush at the first alarm of fire, one of their number, the head of a company amongst them, returned between decks to save a large amount of money, and was instantly suffocated. It is understood that the Chinese lost a large amount of treasure. We then took account of stores and water on board, put every one on five pints, and served out to the Chinese one biscuit per day, and some rice and boiled wheat, and continued on, with a steady breeze from the eastward, until we. arrived at Honolulu, on the 27th, all well. " The Mastiff was a first-class cliliper, of 1,035 tons burthen, built in Boston in 1856, and fitted with all the modern improvements ; cost about 90,000 dols., and was insured, i 1 is stated, in ten Boston offices for 80,000 dol s ." Captain Hart has reP:eived letters of gratitude from the five gentleme-,, passengers above-mentioned from the United States Consul at Honolulu, and from the Chinese who were on board. The latter is as follow " Dear Si r ,— " Honolulu, Sept: 28. We , a committee of our countrymen, in all 174 sou l s rescued by you from the burning ship :Mastiff, at sea, on the 15th day of this present month of September, desire to convey to you our most earnest ac k now l e d gments for the humanity which dictated to you the reception of so many suffering st r a ngers on b oard your ship, and the constant kind treatment they experienced at your hands during the time they remained your guests. We beg your acceptance of the accompa nying flag, which we present with the hope that whenever you look upon it your benevolent heart may experience the throb of gratification which the consciousness of having performed a good action never fails to produce. Should you, amid the storms of life, be threatened with shipwreck of for tune, or any other disaster to which humanity is liable, may you in your hour of need or danger meet with as true a friend and deliver as you ,under Providen ce , h ave prove d to us. W e remain, dear Sir, with sentiments of the deepest gratitude, ever yours, SING Pou, X X Committee of LING HE, 147 Chinese. Go Qui, X " To Capt. Henry T. Hart, British ship Achilles." " OAKELEY v. 00D.DBEN" The following letter has been addressed to the Editor of the Times : " Sir,—Observing the great and serious error into which, probably from the hasty perusal of the evidence in this cause, as it appears in your own impression of Monday last, the writer of your article in to-day's paper has fallen, in representing Mr. Chard as my brother-in-law, I hasten to inform you that he is no relation or connection of any kind of mine, and that I never heard his name until he was in troduced to me by a very respectable friend and client, Mr. Robins, of Covent-garden, on the 26th of July, 1858, en matter of business, in which Lord Ford, in right of his mother, the Countess of Perth and Duchess of Melfort, was interested in the estate of the late General Rapp. " As this matter will be again discussed on a motion to enter the verdict for the plaintiff or for a new trial, I will only now add that I have the written opinion of the three counsel of Mr. Oakelay that the verdict was not warranted by the evidence. " After hearing the evidence personally in court, Mr. Oakely stated that he entirely approved my conduct through out the transaction, and I hold a letter from him, written since the trial, requesting mo to contradict the statement that appeared in another daily paper that I pressed the loan upon him. "As regards my clients and colleagues, I am happy to state that I have experienced but ono sympathising feeling with reference to my having been unwittingly misled by a respectable introduction—a contingency to which every man in public or professional life must frequently be exposed, and. I request the public to suspend their judgment until the case has gone through that further judioial investiga tion which it will receive during next term. " I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, " RICHARD ROY. " 4, Lothbury, London, E.C., Dec. 21." THE MUTINY ON BOARD THE PRINCESS ROYAL. The following petition to the Government in favour of the sailors sentenced to imprisonment for the disturbance on board her Majesty's ship Prin cess Royal, is in circulation among the merchants and bankers of the city, and seems likely to be signed by almost every firm : "TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. " The humble petition of the undersigned bankers, mer chants, and others in the city of London and its neigh bourhood, humbly showeth,— " That your petitioners have observed with deep regret that a body of seamen belonging to your Majesty's navy, upwards of 100 in number, and who recently composed a portion of the crew serving on board your Majesty' s sh ip the Princess Royal, are now undergoing imprisonment in the county gaol at "Winchester for an offence a g ainst dis cipline ; "That your petitioners do not desire to impugn the jus tice or propri e ty o f the sen t en ce passed upon the individuals in question by a Court of adequate and competent authority and jurisdiction ; " But your petitioners aro under the conviction that the offence which gave rise to the proceedings was not the re sult of a mutinous or insubordinate spirit existing on the part of the men previously to its commission, but of momen tary disappointment at the announcement of the recall of an order for leave under very trying circumstances ; " That your petitioners, entertaining these sentiments, humbly hope that your Majesty will be of opinion that the cause of order and discipline has been sufficiently vindi cated by the imprisonment which has been already under gone by the offenders, and that your Majesty will see fit to exercise your Majesty's royal prerogative of mercy in their favour. ft Auci your petitioners will ever pray, la." JOHN BROWN'S WILL. CHARLESTOWN, VA., DEC. 1. I give to my son, John Brown , j unior, m y su rf veying compass and other surveyor's articles, at i found; also my old favourite monument, now North Elba, New York, to receive upon its two sides a further inscription, such as I will hereafter write ; said stone monument, however, to remain at North Elba as long as any of my children, or my wife, may remain there as residents. I give to my son, Jason Brown, my silver watch, with my name engraved on the inner case. I give to my son, O w en Brown, my doubl e-s py opera-glass and my rifle, if found, presented to me at Worcester, Mass. It is globe-sighted and new. be I give also to the said son 50 dollas in cash, to paid him from the proceeds of my father's estate, as an offset to the two first cases above named. I give to my daughter, Ruth Thompson, my very large Bible, containing family records. I give to each of my sons and each of my other daughters, my son-in-law, Henry Thompson, and tohe each of my daughters-in-law, as good a copy of t Bible as can be purchased at any bookstore in New . York or Boston, at a cost of five dollars each in cash, to be paid out of my father's estate. I give to each of my grandchildren tha t ma y be living when my father's estate is settled, a s good a copy of the Bible as can be purchased at the cost of three dollars each, and all the Bibles to be pur chased for cash on the best terms. I desire to have 50 dollars paid out of the final proceeds of my father's estate to the following named persons, to wit -- To Allen Hammond, of Rockville, Tolland County, Connecticut. To George Kellogg, former agent of the New England Company, of that place, for the use and benefit of that company. Also 50 dollars to Silas Havens, formerly of Twinsburg, Summit County, Ohio, if he can be found. Also, 50 dollars to a man, formerly of Stalk County, Ohio, who sued my father in his lifetime ' , through Judge Humphrey - , and Mr. Upson, !If Akron, to be paid by J. R. Brown to th e man itt person, if hA ran be found. Hie nanamel cannot ro manby turning him out a house and lot a t Mon roeville. I desire that any remaining balance that map become my due from my father's estate may the member. My father made a compromise with n equal amounts to my wife and each of be palct i chil dren, and to the widows of Watson an d Oliver Brown by my brother. fly JOHN BROWN, OW. CAPTAIN BROWN ON THE SCAFFOLD. Coolly and bravely, and with as much apo litic al unconcern as if he were about to address a meeting, he mounts the scaffold, advances forward takes off his hat, runs his hand through his bu sh y ray locks, and then turns round and shakes Ilan with the sheriff. Without a moment's d ela y the rope is placed round his neck, his arms more sem white curel pinioned, his feet tied, and a long linen y cowl drawn over his face. In that attitude, erect as a drill sergeant, motionless as a statue-- with not the slightest visible tremor or agitation-- not the most insignificant manifestation of fear — : he stood for fully twelve minutes, while the trooll! were taking up their positions in the various part s of the field. His face was towards the sou th ; the, sun shone warmly upon him, and the pleasapv breeze played about him for the last time. But D; was kept waiting unnecessarily long k e Pa waiting until all the companies had marched a n counter marched to the positions assigned to WI respectively. And then, instead of ap r econcerte.,. signal, the officer of the day shouted to the Ethel twice—so that the prisoner could hear him—." Al i right, Mr. Campbell. All right, Mr. Cam pbell. Before the lapse of another moment, and at exactlY twenty-five minutes past eleven, the drop rope w ag cut by the sheriff, the trap fell, and Sohn Brovrnif was hanging between heaven and earth. The fa t. was not nearly great enough—it was hardly a fn._ Some slight muscular action and asp asmea.l.v_ clenching of the hands, were all the signs of 111! that the dying man gave, and yet it vms suppesea that four or five minutes must have passed before life was extinct.—New York .Herald. pbell." TILE BODY OF CAPTIAN BROWN. The New York reporters give a description of the body of the martyr when it reach ed that city: Upon opening the coffin, which was t he same box that the deceased rode upon to his exec ution, he was found clothingust as he had been lowered f rom the gallows. The which he had o n Wag the moved moved and the body placed on ice. During th afternoon e it was found to be sufficiently fro zen to admit of being placed in the coffin for burial. 14 1 was laid out in a neat white shroud, with pleat"; trimmings, and white cravat. The co ffi n Was o f solid rosewood, but bore no plate. The appearance of the body had every indication of the deceased being, as it were, in a deep sleep. The upper Per' tion of the face was quite flushed, the eyes well quite red, especially under the right eye, and seemed like a bruise. The mark of the rop?. is visible on the left side of the neck and under the ear. His whiskers have been neatly turned, and his hair combed back, having a r a t her stiff a p pear" ance. Altogether his appearance is that of one sleeping. Quite a number called to see the bodY• but only a few of his most intimate friends were admitted. It was placed in a rear or out-house, used as a carpenter's room, and was inclosed in si white pine box. It will be taken this morning, by the seven o'clock Hudson River Railroad train, to North Elba. The box which the corpse was brought in was about six feet in length, and where his head rested was considerable blood, which had oozed out of his ears. Mrs. Brown has not seen the body of her husband since the execution. She arrived in the city, and will accompany the corpse to North Elba. AN ANECDOTE OF JOHN BROWN. John Brown emigrated to Kansas. A prominent citizen of Warren County was an apprentice of his in Crawford County, and tells many facts illustra ting his integrity and nobleness of heart, one of which runs thus :—Having heard that a poor man with a large family was suffering for the necess!s4 ries of life, he sent me to his house to inform him that John Brown would sell him provisions o n credit. He came at once and got about 30 dollars worth, agreeing to pay in work the next summer but with summer came other calls for his labour than the payment of old debts ; so he cams t° Brown and frankly told him his situation, and that it would be impossible to pay as agreed up o n The noble old man said to him, h ome and tax a care of your family, and let me hear no more about this debt. It is a part of my religion to assl,s,', those in distress, and to comfort those that mourn. MURDER OF RUSSIANS IN JAPAN. An o ffi cer and man of the Russian fr i g ate Askold wyre murdered at Yokuhama, in Japan , on the 25th 1859. The Russian captain deman ded of August, reparation, and the following is the decree of the High Council of Japan : " After four conferences of the Governors his of Foreign Affairs with the Aide-de -Camp a Majesty the Emperor of Russia, Captain of the First Class Ounkovsky, about the murde r committed at Yokuhama on a Russian o ffi cer and a sailor, the 00; Council of the Japanese Empire has been inform 7 that the satisfaction required by C e P ts . l ' A. A deputation of the highest di Ounkovsky consists of the following, articles .--• come on board the frigate Askold, and present ex cuses in presence of the Russian officers and the crew for the unfortunate accident happened at Yohuhama: B. The Governor of the tows must be dismissed and deprived of his dignities. gntaries must C. The murderers mnst be found by the 12th (240 nese date), and punished with death, of September (the 28th of the eighth month of hips: the Russian officers and the crew, in the place where the murder was committed: The first article base been executed immediately after the demand; the second article has been executed on the 1 2 °' (24th) of September (the 28th of the eighth month. Japanese date), the Governors of Yokuhama, giill. Tsikogono Kami, and Kato Ikino Kara are clul; in presence ot missed. and deprived of their dignities. In an to the third article, the High Government of Japal d i eclaresits entire readiness for the unconditional execution of this article, if only the murderer s call be found by the designated time. But as the mut' derers, notwithstanding the m ost active measure% t a ken by the High Governmen t to find thenl• were not found by the desig nated term, the High Government of Japan takes the o bli g ation, as soon as the criminals shall be found: aft t er the departure of the frigate A skold from Yedo, o inform immediately the R ussian Imperial Consul. at llakodadi, and the representatives of all goreig n nations at Yedo and Kane.gana, and punish cri minals with death in the place where the murder was committed, as it is said in the third article, in presence of the signified persons, if they shall de sire to assist. The Japanese High Go.vernment nd about over the grave of the murdered Russians, a engages itself to take the chapel which will be built which the Aide-de -Camp of his. Majesty the Etn' od sky, has spoken on the conferences, under its Pr peror of Russia, Captain of the First Class Ounkov tection for all time," THE ROYAL CHARTER. —A further amount of treasure has been recovered from the wreck of the Bori Charter—namely, four bars and a largo gold, 411 sovereigns, and nine rupees. Sem° rn °e vir°°. has been washed ashore. piece of a bar 0, MCINit emit last in tl Rep the 1181.1 rain sent nati of t. Mar ware Rail actii men crew Chili Th are I 1 I 1 En att *1 Th to thi Great North South Brigh Midla South Great Laura I Hato North Maud North Oxfor West bublil Edizb Glutei Dutch Midi Zastl Nort 10s. have Joi have Baal Lon( Mail tali • ;lank 3 p . Newer Anus, India ' Ditto Ditto Dit r'onac India EiCh Dail Chili Dit blexi Dii Dii ports Sordi Di Ewe(Ewe ( fort Di Di Di 'Tani Di Dittc Di