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HOUSES. —Messrs. TUNIS and ROBERTS have numerous furnished and unfurnished TOWN, ,üburban, and Country RESIDENCES to LET or SELL. Partlonian; forwarded for three stamps, upon stating exact requirements and rental. Offices, 2, Conduit-street, Regent street, and South Kensington, facing the Museum. QOUTH KENSO GTON, HY DE -PARK, 10 Queen's, and Rutland Gates , Q ueen's -gate and Peters ham Terraces, Queen's -gate, Cornwall, and Princes Gardens, Elvaston - place, Cromwell-road, Onslow and Thurloe Squares, Boltons. &o. MeEsrs TOPLI 4 and ROBEUTS have RESI DENCS to SELL and LET in these and surrounding localitie E s. Offices, 2, Conduit -street, Regent- street, and South Kensington, facing the Aluseum. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOLS, for orphan and Necessitous Children, Pinner. PATRON—H.R.H. the Prince of WALES. VICE-ParruoN-11.R.H. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE. PRESIDENT —R. C. L. BEVAN, Esq. At a GENRRA.L HALF-YEARLY COURT of this Institution, held This Day, at the London Tavern, Bishops gate-street, R. C. L. BEVAN, Esq., President, in the Chair, the result of the Poll was declared as follows : SITCCESSFUL CANDIDATES. BOYS. Martin, H 468 Lafount, R.A. Chaplin, F. Fitch, IL 827 Francis, W. H. Cooper, R. S. Beech, W. F. UNSUCCESSFU CANDIDATES. NS. Evans, D. J. 172 Sharland, F. J B3 Warwick, M 57 Carman, R. D. Douglas, J. C 205 Walker, C. E. 202 Lavender, E. W . SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES. GIRLS. Elliott, S. J. Norris, M. Todhunter, E. H. 464 UNSUCCESSFUL GIRLS. Duff, E. Moore, J. E. 158 Williams, G. E 94 Wooster, C. h. is, AY. LENDON, Secretary. Offices, 76, Cheapoide, E.C., Dec.2B, 1865. DUBLIN UNIVERI No. 397. FOR JANI ,SITY MAGAZINE.- IJARY. Price 2s. 6d. CONTENTS. 1. Laws of the Ancient Irish. Gullivsr— Candide— Tea 2. "Number Five Brooke- felsdrockh. street." 6. Tinted Sketches in Ma i. Glastonbury Abbey, Past deira. and Present. The Rise 7. Garrick. and Influence of English 8. A Girl's Resolve. Monachism. 9. Caricature in Ancient Art. 4. "Not Wisely, but too 10. Beatrice—A Verse-Drama Well." in Two Acts. 5. Three Cynic l Spectators. 11. Fenianism. Dublin: George Herbert. London: Hurst and Blackett. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GAEDEN. .. . - (Opera Company, Limited.) THIS EVENING (FRIDAY), Mr. Charles Deffelli's new opera, in one act, CRUISTMAS EVE. Madame F. Lancia, Madame E. Heywood; Mr. A. Cook, and Mr. D Miranda. Conductor, Mr. Alfred Mellon. After which. at 8, the grand comic, sFectacular, and ope ritic Chew mas Pantomime, entitled ALADDIN AND THE WONDERFUL LAMP; or, Harlequin and the Flying Palace. (See other advertisements). Commence at 7 o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.- Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, the Farce of HUSBANDS, BEWARE. Mr. G. Belmore, Miss Ilazlewood. After which, the Pantomime, LITTLE KING PIPPIN or, Harlequin Fortunatus and the Magic I'urse and Wishing Cap. Messrs. G. Belmore, H. Drayton, G. Weston. Master Percy Itoselli ; Misses Hazlewood, A. Thomson, E. Falconer, do l'antomimi4s, Messrs. H. Boleno. C. Lauri, CormacX, Saville, Miss Morgan, and Madame Boleno. Commence at 7. THEATRE -ROYAL, DRURY-LANE Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. SPECIAL MORNING PERFORMANCES. In answer to numerous applications from parties residing in the environs, and in order to allow country visitors to London during the holiday week an opportunity to witness the Drury-lane Annual Grand Christmas Pantomime, en titled (this year) LITTLE KING PIPPIN ; or, Harlequin Fortunatus and the Magic Purse and Wishing Cap, Messrs. Falconer and Chatterton have decided on giving FOUR MORNING PERFORMANCES, on WEDNESDAY, Dec. 27th ; THURSDAY, 28th ; FRIDAY, 29th ; and SATUR DAY, 30th; and every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday in the month of January. Doors open at half-past One. Commence at Two o'clock each day. Children and Schools at reduced prices to the following parts of the Theatre : First Circle, Dress Circle, and Stalls. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.- Sole Lessee and Maneger, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, BROTHER SAM : Messrs. Sothern, Buckstone, Compton; Mesdames Nelly Moore, Snowden, &c. To be followed by ORPHEUS IN THE HAYMARK ET. Messrs. W. Farren, F eher, Bas tleman, Weaihersby, &c. ; Mesdames Keeley, Snowden, Moore, Lindley, Weolgar, Howard, Wright, Coleman, Lovell, Prevot, &c. To conclude with SHOCKING EVEN I'S. Mr. Com_ ton. Commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. TII IS EVENI G, Deo. 29, and during the week, a New Drama. entitled TII E Itt ASTER OF ttAV 61N WOOD. Edgar Ravenswood, Mr. Fechter, supported by a powerful company. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, at t!even, a new farce called LEHIND TIMr.. Messrs. J L. Toole, R. Phillips, Eburne, C. J. Smith; Miss A. zeaman, &c. Atter which, at 8, RIP VAN WINKLE. 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ALEXANDER (late BROOKS), Newspaper Agent, 24, Old Cavendish- greet, Oxford-street. riIHE LAST EDITION of " THE SUN" LITEMPP.MvaSs soon ais r a gNtlied, Vl c, the y H. W. HARRIS, Newspaper Agent, 4, Blacklrlars-road. London, S. T" LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN." J. HOLMES begs to inform his friends, and the pubilo generally. that he supplies the LATEST EDITION of "THE SUN" as soon as published —No. 16, Hampstead road, N.W. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Merning, 11h. 18m.—Afternoon, 11h. 50m. TO-Mognow.-Morning, h. m.—Afternoon, 12h. 22m. • 4. , LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC. 29, 1865. Lord WILTON has done himself great credit by coming forward to expose the fallacious course pursued by the Government, and to denounce their unworthy conduct. It is time, indeed, that the other side should be heard in this affair, for we have had enough, and more than enough, of the diatribes of Exeter Hall. In the letter which the noble lord has written on the subject, we find the case put before us in an impressive manner, and so em phatically discussed, that no one can fail t o see the great injustice that has been done, and th e blameable manner in which the Premier has acted. How true is the passage which declares that it suits a " faction" to " make assumptions, and then demand action upon them." This is precisely what has taken place, and yet so ingenious have been the contrivances, and so positive the statements made by these agi tators, that many really moderate persons have been mystified, and begin to think that something very wrong has been done by the authorities in Jamaica. For the benefit of such people who are content to take the most important news at second hand, this communication of Lord WILTON's is very appropriate, and we cannot too strongly recommend it to their attention. here they will realise at a glance the unfairness with which a zealous and valuable servant has been treated, and they may judge if this is the policy which they wish their public men to adopt. That the Prime Minister, in his cool and guarded moments, should have lent himself to the ravings of a faction seems scarcely credible," is remarked in allusion to Lord RUSSELL'S mean pandering to the views of the alarmist clique. Strict impartiality would certainly have induced a man in his responsible. position to have waited until all the evidence was before him ; but how contrary to this has been the course pursued by the Premier. "As it is," observes the able expositor of recent eventa, " Governor EYRE has been given up as a victim—for suspicion is virtually condemnation _in order that the Ministry may gain sup port from this faction' during the coming, and probably eventful, session of Parliament." We can imagine what indignation this plain speak ing will excite among those to whom the world especially points, but we defy the members of the Government to face the Parliament and the country and declare that they have acted fairly ; and we assure those members of the Home who have made themselves so officious in blackening the characters of absent men, who have not had an opportunity of speaking in their own defence, that they have done themselves no harm, and will have to answer to their constituents for their adoption of this un-English proceeding. The igno rance displayed by the " faction " is only equalled by its unwarrantable .assumption. They deny that there was any outbreak, they declare that the Volunteers must have fired first, in the face of fact that for months past Governor EYRE has been signifying to the Home Government that great disaffection prevailed, and although it is known that, previous to the confusion referred to, the mutinous party had broken in and rescued the prisoner then upon his trial. Well may LordliVivroN ask why the agitators at home do not censure the Government for their delay and supineness, instead of selecting for censure the man who was placed in most difficult circumstances, and had to bear the brunt of the blow which " of ficial incapacity" would have prevented him from averting by timely measures of precaution. The truth is that the faction cares little for consistency, and only seeks to carry its point. Neither truth nor justice is suffered to obtain influ ence over them, and " every act done under circumstances of fearful difficulty has been noted down, falsified, and then denounced with all the vindictiveness of revenge." We find here mentioned some of the most glaring misrepresentations made by the infatuated party in their vehement denuncia tions. Mr. JACOB BRIGHT said at Manchester that the lives of many of their fellow-subjects had been sacrificed in an " alleged insurrection," thus throw ing doubt upon the assertion that there had been an insurrection at all. Again, the Peace Society deliberately stated that " no doubt the outbreak was immediately provoked by the volunteer force firing on the crowd." Can anything be more ab surd in argument and more unfair in insinuation than this. Had the matter ended here, however, we could content ourselves by deploring the infatu ation of a large class of our fellow-citizens, but the worst of all is that the Prime Minister, " cowering before this faction, has shrunk and given way." This it is that lends force and significance to the plots and criticisms of the Peace Society, and makes it incumbent on all who value fair play to denounce the course of the Ministry. As it is stated here, the faction " has so far succeeded in its object," and " Governor EYRE, before any offi cial reports have reached this country of all the facts, has been suspended, the act of suspension, as I have said, under all the circumstances, being vir tually one of condemnation." The English public must have changed very much from their well known character, and lost their most distinguishing traits, if they approve and sanction such a policy in those who are in the high places of their own community. Spanish affairs have during the last few months attracted an unusual degree of notice. The states men and politicians of more active and energetic nations have been accustomed to look on the changes of Castilian Cabinets and the progress of Castilian policy with something akin to indifference. There was not much reason to apprehend that Spain would ever set Europe on fire ; and what with the un scrupulous aggression of the great German Powers, the clamour of the minor states, with the inscrut able policy of France, and the doubtful position of Russia and Poland, with the dismemberment of Denmark, and the convulsions in America, the affairs of the Peninsula have been left very much to take care of themselves. The news of a ministerial crisis at Madrid excites about the same degree of surprise and interest as the intelligence of a fresh development of the chronic rebellion of China ; and the general impression of that once powerful king dom was that it was neither likely to do much harm nor good in the world. Of late, however, Spanish politics have been increasing in interest. First, we had the accession of the O'Donnell party to power, the abandonment of the struggle with San Domingo, and various indications of a more enlightened and liberal policy. We had just begun to hope that Spanish politicians were awakening to the necessi ties of the time, and were about to inaugu rate a more hopeful state of things, when the affair in the Pacific discouraged all these cheerful prospects. The conduct of the Spanish Admiral, so arbitrary and unwarrantable as to excite univer sal indignation throughout diplomatic circles, has received the approval of his Government, who have shown no intention of abating the extravagant pretensions put forward by their representatives. Remonstrances and arguments fall entirely power less before such predetermined obstinacy, and the only logic which will convince the stately Spaniard that he is in the wrong must come from ships of war. The relations of the Spanish QUEEN with her people have not of late been very cordial, and considerable doubts were entertained as to whether she would really present herself to the Cortes. However, the long-delayed entry into the capital having been safely accomplished, the opening of the Cortes by her MAJESTY in person was only natural. In the speech which the QUEEN delivered on Wednesday she gave little hope of a reconcilia tion with Chili—of course in accordance with the popular Spanish theory of the injuries inflicted by the little South American Republic on the dignity of the Castilian. " The desire for peace," said the QUEEN, "has notbeen able to preventthe commence ment of hostilities between this country and Chili, which had obstinately refused to make amends for wrongs done to the Spanish nation during the Peru vian difficulty., The Peruvian difficulty being one entirely of Spanish manufacture for the sake of the pecuniary compensation to be extorted from the reluctant Peruvians! " The Government," con tinued the QUEEN, will give an account to the Cortes of the progress of the war, and of any nego tiations that may take place in connection there with." Such informa tion will be ea gerly looked for by the commercial circles in Spain, since we learn that great, and not unreasonable, apprehension exists at Cadiz respecting the Chilian privateers, and considerable anxiety is felt to know how many vesssls of what class will be sent out by the Govern ment to protect Spanish commerce. The Cadiz authorities have notified to the shippers and ship owners of that port that the Government will adopt all necessary measures for their protection. But very possibly those interested in the matter do not feel much confidence in these promises, when they re member that American vessels and American crews are most likely lying in wait, and that in spite of the dignified pretensions of the royal naval autho rities of Spain. On the 16th Vesuvius was powdered over with snow, and the mountains all round the bay are still thickly covered—a remarkable p h enomenon, an d promis ing a severe Winter. It is stated that the% Royal Academicians have in timated to Lady Eastlake their desire that their late Pre sident should be buried! in one of our i.ublic mausolea, with ttll the honours dui. o his distinguki ed position. Fi THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBFR 29, lEEE. LA TEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) COLOGNE, DEC. 29. The Cologne Gazette of to-day publishes a tele gram from Vienna, according to which the Minister of Finance has forbidden the payment of the Janu ary dividend of the Austrian Creditanstalt. The Council of Administration of the Creditan stalt have, therefore, tendered their resignation. THE BRAZILS. (By Telegraph from Lisbon.) BUENOS AYRES, Nov. 27. Rumours are current that peace is about to be concluded between Paraguay and the Allies through European mediation. Lopez, President of Paraguay, has sent a despatch to President Mitre, the contents of which are not known. There is much political agitation on the subject of a new capital for the Argentine Confederation, where the representatives of the different States should assemble. RIo DE JANEIRO, Dec. 9. The allied army continues to advance without interrup tion. is a sluggish gas, producing asphyxia if inhaled in a state of purity, and yet peculiarly necessary to animal life, since it is an important ingredient of atmospheric air, which is but a mixture of that gas with oxygen, with which it will only combine when in a nascent state. Dr. Demarquay having after many experiments on animals, as well as on the human subject, arrived at the conclusion that nitrogen was in a manner a dissolvent of oxygen, and had no exciting property of its own, while on the other hand the irritating action of atmospheric air was due to oxygen, was led to inquire whether the spontaneous reunion of wounds and sores might not be determined by the applica tion of nitrogen. In the case of an amputation, the stump may be introduced into an India rubber bag provided with two tubes, one for letting out the common air, and the other for introducing nitrogen (or, by the way, any other gas). Such is the apparatus employed by our author. In one of the cases he describes, a little finger was disjointed without choloroformising the patient. '1 here was no great loss of blood, and no ligature was neces sary. After the operation, an apparatus similar to the above was applied to the stumps, and fixed above the elbow with strips of diachylon plaster. As soon as nitrogen was intro duced the patient, who was complaining of acute pain, found himself considerably relieved, being only conscious of numbness in the part. In another similar case the same relief was obtained, and when the apparatus was removed the patient at once felt violent pain, owing to contact with the atmosphere. In the case of a bad sore, it was found that nitrogen retarded the reproductive action of _ _ nature. After applying it for a week, oxygen was used instead, and on the following day the sore was found to be redder on the borders, and the surface had become somewhat unequal. After a second application of oxygen the surface of the sore was covered with proud flesh, rose-coloured, and secret ing pus. The pain was greater ; oxygen continued to be applied, but only for two hours, and discon tinued after the third day ; from which time the sore, regularly dressed with glycerine, ultimately healed. M. Leon Renard, librarian of the Depot of Maps and Charts of the Navy Office, gives a highly inte _ _ _ _ resting description of the French Naval School for Orphans, in his work entitled Merveilles de l'Art Naval. The Etablissement des Papules de la Marine at Drat, recently founded by an Imperial decree, is large enough to receive 800 orphans of seamen and workmen of the arsenals. On the 15th of August last it contained 361 pupils. Orphans having lost both their parents are admitted from the age of seven ; those that have lost only one, at the age of nine. The establishment is under the command of a navy lieutenant, who has under hi 6 orders several adjutants, second mates, quartermasters, and sailors who have obtained the diploma of instructor. The service of the laundry and sickroom is performed by Sisters of Charity ; a navy physician attends patients. The pupils learn reading, writing, and accounts. They are organised as on board ship, and in the court of the establishment there is a small cor vette with all its rigging complete, where the boys get practical instruction. They get up at five and go to bed at eight ; they have four meals a day, and go twice a day to the schoolroom and twice to the cor vette, where they learn all the duties connected with the working of a ship, besides the manual exercise, singing, &c. There is a swimming school attached to the establishment. At the age of 13 the pupil quits the school and goes on board the Inflexible, containing the Ecole des Mousses, or cabin-boys' school. If not thought fit to be received in this school, he is restored to his family, which, by the way, has always a right to take him away. But if he is to learn the business of a steersman or gun nery, he is sent on board the Bretagne, another special school-ship. From either of these establish ments the young sailor is drafted into the navy, where he always has a good chance of promotion. The municipal council of Havre has just voted the budget of that town—the receipts being 3,488,499 f., and the expenses 3,488,282 f., leaving a surplus of 217 f. A slight collision took place the night before last on the Eastern Railway, near Chalon-sur-Marne, between a goods' train and the postal one going towards Strasburg. The only person injured was a breaksman, who sustained a contusion in the leg. The damage was insignificant. The Cardinal Archbishop of Besancon, having caused excavations to be made in the cathedral of his diocese, which led to the discovery of the re mains of eight sovereign Counts of Burgundy, who reigned in the 11th and 12th centuries, the bones were put into new coffins and deposited last week with due solemnity, in a vault constructed to receive them under the flags of one of the chapels in the cathedral. The village of Charleval (Bouches-du-Rhone) has just been thrown into consternation by a shocking tragedy. M. Moucan, the proprietor of the Cafe du Brceuf-d'Or at the place above mentioned, after living some time very unhappily with his wife, had agreed with her to obtain a judicial separation, and meanwhile Mme. Moucan, with her son, three years old, went to reside with her father, M. Noyer, at Cadenet, a town in the neighbourhood. Three days since Mme. Moucan and her son, accompa nied by her father, went to Charleval on business connected with the proposed separation. As they were returning to Cadenet in the evening in a cabrio let along with a Mme. Castor, they were met about half a mile from Charleval by M. Moucan, who fired two shots at his wife with a revolver, inflicting a slight wound. M. Noyer then alighted to seize the murderer, and also received a shot and several stabs with a knife. Though wounded, Mine. Moucan, who apparently was apprehensive of an attack, had provided arms, and, drawing a pistol, attempted to discharge it at her husband, but it missed fire. He then fired at her again, but missed, and then stab bing her with a knife, took to flight. One of the shots killed Mme. Castor on the spot. The horse, ter ified by the reports of the pistols, ran away with only Mme. Castor's body and the child in the cabriolet, but was stopped at the first village, and the child escaped unhurt. M. Noyer and his daughter were soon after found by a carrier and taken home. Mine. Moucan, who was enciente, was prematurely confined a few hours after of a son, who is alive, and she herself is expected to recover. Her father's wounds, though severe, are not dangerous. The next morning the gendarmery went to arrest the murderer, but when he saw them approaching ho discharged two shots at his own head, and expired soon afterwards. "We are happy to announce," says the Belgian Moniteur, " that, in consequence of the accession of the Duke de Brabant to the Crown, Count de Flandre has accepted the presidentship of the Bel gian Commission for the Universal Exhibition of Paris." BOURSE, Dec. 28.—Two o'clock.—English Con sols are telegraphed with a further fall of i per cent., which is generally attributed to the Bank of Eng land having put up its rate of discount 1 per cent. The market here also manifests increased weakness, Three per Cents. being now done at a decline of 121 c., viz., 68f. 7f c. Italian Fives have receded sc.—to 65f. 40c. Credit Mobilier still continue ex ceedingly heavy at 821 f. 25c., showing a fall of llf. 25c. In the Railway Department Saragossa arc buoyant at 220 f., with a further advance of 7f. 50c., the quotations of the other lines being without ma terial change. Three o'clock.—The last quotations show a slight improvement, and are as follows :- 41 per Cents 9B Roman — Do. end month — Ottoman Fives 42 40 3 per Cents. 6B 05 Mexican Loan 47 50 Do. end month OB 10 Do. Bonds — Credit Mobilier ... 828 75 Russian — Do. end month ... 825 Austrian Bank Shares 3715 Spanish Threes ... Credit Fonder 1320 Home Debt Italian Loan 65 35 Deferred Do. end month 65 45 ILAILN) WAYS. Cash. Amt. ▪ 838 75 ... 1133 75 ~. 848 75 • 572 50 Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern Western -- Eastern — ... 525 Sardinian Austrian — ... 433 75 Lombard — ... 4 .0 50 North of Sp a i n — ... 170 Saragossa — ... 215 Ditto to Barcelona — _ ... 90 Romaa — I n j 57 50 Earl Russell and Governor Eyre Lord Wilton, in a letter to a contemporary, says the Jamaica outbreak has been a most unfor tunate circumstance in more than one sense. No one can read the accounts as they were received without feeling that acts have been committed revolting to humanity, whatever may be the point from which the subject is viewed. It is shocking to think that, after so many years of emancipation from slavery, with every inducement held out to industry and frugality, the negroes, instead of raising themselves in the scale of civilisation, should have ruthlessly swept aside our hopeful anticipations, and rushed back at one fell swoop into the darkest excesses of barbarism, not one jot advanced from the primitive position of their race. It is shocking to think of Europeans being butchered in cold blood—put to death under condi tions of cruelty not surpassed in the annals of savagery, the negro women even assisting in the horrid orgies. It is equally shocking that Europeans should have shot down, flogged, or hanged a large number of negroes who had banded together for their destruction. Every circumstance connected with the insurrection is shocking. But who were the instigators? It needs not now to dwell on any remote cause ; that may be a subject fit for inves- tigation. The facts, however, still remain. Who first threw the war hatchet ? On them, and on them only, lies the whole burden of blame. The subsequent acts follow as a necessary consequence, a simple corollary ; but it suits a faction—l can call it by no other name— in this country, to make assumptions, and then demand action upon them. It suits this fac tion to make statements not borne out by facts in order to bring discredit upon those who, placed in power, have been obliged to wield the sword with a strong arm. It suits this faction to state, con- trary to fact, that the mob fired upon from the Court-house was unarmed, inoffensive, and incap able of wrong. The governor of the island was placed by the home Government in a responsible position ; under conditions of great urgency he has acted to the best of his judgment, and a virtual ac- knowledgment of the value of his services thus rendered has been given by those on the spot, and therefore best capable of entering into and appreciating the difficulties of the situation. That the governor, under very trying cir cumstances, should have acted with rigorous severity may be allowed ; he acted up only to the measure of the deeds around him, and might have been urged by alarm, certainly not groundless, to make summary examples. But that the Prime Minister of this country, in his cool and guarded moments, should have lent himself to the ravings of this faction seems scarcely credible. It would have been more in accordance with the dignity of his position to have supported an absent man thus arraigned, but not convicted. It would have been more in accordance with strict impartiality to have suspended judgment ; but, as it is, Governor Eyre has been given up as a victim—for suspension is virtually condemnation—in order that the Ministry may gain support from this faction during the coming and possibly eventful session of the new Parliament. I may express myself warmly, for I feel so; for what are the outlines of the case? On the 11th of October a meeting was held at the Court-house at Morant Bay. A crowd of negroes were hanging about the place. They make a sudden attack, but, finding the place securely guarded, they set the building on fire, and all in the house at the time were cruelly burnt to death. That the negroes were armed is clear from the report. After plun dering the town they went in crowds to the estates around, murdering the proprietors or their repre sentatives, and then spread themselves over the country, committing havoc and devastation, having first gone through the hideous hypocrisy of return ing thanks to God and singing hymns. For months previously Governor Eyre had signi fied to the Government at home that a strong spirit of disaffection pervaded the whole island. Surely then was the proper time for inquiry, and, if needed, for action. But nothing was done. He was left to act for himself. Now, when the outbreak has taken place, when the barbarous annihilation intended for the whole white population was only frustrated by a premature demonstration, which enabled the authorities to cope with and crush the imminent danger ; now, when much blood has been shed, the Prime Minister, cowering before this faction, shrinks back and gives way. Why do not those who now declaim against Mr. Eyre denounce the Government for supineness and incapacity, and lay the blame where it ought to fall. But no, this does not suit the faction. The Prime Minister is vir tually its subordinate, and so another must be the victim, and every act, done under circumstances of fearful difficulty, has been noted down, falsified, and then denounced with all the vindictiveness of revenge. I protest, sir, against Mr. Eyre being made the scapegoat for official incapacity, and I am confident that all impartial men will agree with me. But, sir, it is astounding to see how facts have been misrepresented. At a meeting at Manchester, on Nov. 27, Mr. Jacob Bright said, in reference to the massacre at Morant Bay, " whereby the lives of many of their fellow subjects have been sacrificed in an alleged insurrection," as if there had been any doubt about the fact. The memorial of the Peace Society, with the accounts beforeit, deliberately makes a false statement that " no doubt the outbreak was imme diately provoked by the volunteer force firing on the crowd." Mr. Buxton, in his letter, insinuates that Governor Eyre's treatment of Mr. Gordon arose from his being a political opponent, and that it was well known that Mr. Gordon was coming to this country to lay before Parliament the griev ances of the inhabitants. How, may I ask, is this consistent with the facts stated, that Mr. Gordon had for three years been plotting this outbreak, and had, moreover, a guilty knowledge of the proposed massacre of the whites at Christmas? It has been urged against Governor Eyre that he acted illegally in removing Mr. Gordon from Kingston, then under civil law, to a locality under military law, where Mr. Gordon was brought to a court-martial, condemned, and executed But Captain Bedford Pim states distinctly " that the removal of Mr. Gordon from Kingston to St. Thomas in the East was strictly in accordance with the laws of Jamaica." But so far the faction has succeeded in its object, and Governor Eyre, before any official reports have reached this country of all the facts, has been suspended, the act of suspen sion, as I have said, under all the circumstances, being virtually one of condemnation. If this is to be the treatment of those who are placed by their Sovereign in highly responsible posts over Imperial dependencies, who hereafter would covet the honour? Who would seek to serve his country in distant lands and under tropical suns, with the conviction that, should cir cumstances arise calling for firmness, decision, and, it may be, severity, his acts would be denounced by a faction of his countrymen at home, and that the Minister from whom he might reasonably expect support would not only give way to the cry, but sacrifice him without even the Englishman's privi lege of an impartial hearing. These are the feelings which are gradually spreading throughout the country. Lord Russell may rest assured that a re action will take place. At present but one side only has been heard. The pars altera will also claim a hearing, and, perhaps, a loud one, too, and justice will then be done to an able and well-deserving servant of his Sovereign. SUDDEN DEPARTURE OF TROOPS FOR IRELAND.— About 3 o'clock yesterday morning an order was received at the barracks at Manchester for an entire regi ment—the 64th—to start for Dublin via Liverpool, with baggage, women, and children. The men and officers were at once roused and paraded, and by 8 o'clock they were en route by special train to Liverpool (1,200 strong) under the command of Colonel Shute and Major Anderson. They arrived at Liverpool about 10 a.m., and were marched to the Clarence Dock, where they were to embark at 6 p.m. on board the City of Dublin Steampacket Company's steamers St. Columbia and Windsor, specially prepared to sail with them at that hour for Dublin. Seven officers, absent on leave, were ordered by telegraph to report them selves at the Clarence Dock, Liverpool, by 5 p.m. last evening. We understand that a regiment at Chester were ordered quite as suddenly to depart for Dublin, via Holy ' head. Lifeboat Services. T NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND, Thursday Night. —1 have the pleasure of reporting another very gal lant service of our lifeboat (says the Rev. E. N. Mangin). About 5 o'clock this morning a vessel was discovered on the rocks at Spital Point, about a mile to the south-west of Newbiggin; she proved to be the brigantine Neptune, 325 tons, from New York, bound to Grangemouth, N. 8., and laden with petroleum. The morning was very dark, and the master appears not to have seen the lights, owing .to the fog over the land. The ship struck the rocks at about 2 o'clock in the morning, but the signals of distress were not observed till 5 o'clock. The life boat of the National Lifeboat Institution was launched with the utmost promptitude, and suc ceeded in rescuing the master and eight men form ing the crew, and bringing them safely to land. There was a heavy sea on, and there was great danger from the number of rocks surrounding the ship, rendering approach rather hazardous. There is no hope of saving the vessel, as she is full of water. HANNLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND, Tuesday Night.— I have to inform you (reports Mr. E. Whitfield) that a schooner called the Torn Cringle, of Thurso, 94 tons register, John Calder, coal laden, from Sea ham, bound for Aberdeen, came on shore on Bardicar Rocks, a dangerous locality, about half a mile S.E. of the Hanxley Lifeboat House early this morning. The wind on the shore was blowing strongly from the south, the weather was foggy, and there was a heavy sea running. Torch-lights wore observed by the Hanxley fishermen, and the lifeboat of the Na tional Lifeboat Institution was at once launched, and soon reached the vessel. The crew of four men were taken out immediately and brought on shore in safety. The vessel is likely to become a total wreck. During the last 12 months the lifeboats of the National Lifeboat Institution have providentially been the means of rescuing 479 lives from the fol lowing shipwrecks on the coasts of the United Kingdom :—Brig Willie Ridley, of Plymouth, 8 ; bark Amana, of Sunderland, 18 ; schooner Susan, of Dublin, 4 ; fishing-boat, of Berwick-on-Tweed, saved vessel and crew, 6 ; brig Elizabeth, of Shields, saved vessel, and crew, 7 ; schooner Albion, of Teignmouth, 6 ; lugger La Marie Frangaise ; le Pere Samson, saved vessel, and crew, 4 ; smack Leader, of Harwich, 1; schooner Anga, of Norway, saved vessel, and crew, 4 ; schooner Emma, of Barrow, 5 ; yawl Matchless, of Newhaven, Bayed vessel, and crew, 3 ; brig Hants, of Odessa, saved vessel ; bark Lexington, of Nassau, assisted to save vessel, and crew, 14 ; brig Border Chieftain, of Hartlepool, 8 ; schooner Delila, of Nantes,_7_; brigantine Eclipse, of St. Ives, 2 ; schooner .Pfeil, of Blankanesse, 7 ; schooner Kate, of Lynn, 4 ; schooner Teazer, of Goole, 1; ship's boat in Red wharf Bay, Angle Sea, 1 ; brigantine Burton, of Wivenhoe, 1 ; steamer Ocean Queen, of Newcastle, 15 ; lugger Peep O'Day, of Wexford, 6 ; bark Maria Soames, of London, 19 ; schooner Speed, of Wexford, 6 ; smack Agnes and Mary, of Glasgow, 1; sloop Catherine, of Liver pool, saved vessel, and crew, 4 ; schooner Johnson, of Exeter, 4 ; brigantine Light of the Harem, of Whitstable, saved vessel, and crew, 4 ; brig Stef fania, of Palermo, saved vessel, and crew, 12 ; , schooner Henry Holman of Plymouth, saved vessel, and crew, 8 ; schooner Thomas, of Liverpool, 5 ; brig Nautilus, of South Shields, saved vessel, and crew, 9 ; brig Harlington, of Sunderland, saved vessel, and crew, 9 ; brig Kathleen, of Hartlepool, saved vessel, and crew, 6 ; schooner Patrios, of Barth, 5 ; sloop Robert Hood, of Newcastle-on- Tyne, 2 ; French brig Providence, of Granville, 4 ; schooner Earl Zetland, of Almwch, saved vessel, and crew, 5 ; schooner Emma, of Barrow, 6 ; brig Reaper, of Scarborough, 9 ; schooner Franklin of Belfast, 4 ; Longships lighthouse-keeper, 1 ; schooner Clara Brown, of Barrow, 4 ; schooner Maria,of saved vessel, and crew, 3 ; fishing coble, of New biggin, 4 ; fishing smack Splendid, of Grimsby, 9 ; Belgian brig Espoir, 11 ; smack Dahlia, of Portmadoc, saved vessel, and crew, 3 ; lighter, in Dublin Bay, 5 ; brig Argo, of Fayal, saved vessel ; bark Drydens, of North Shields, 13 ; brig Wear mouth, of Sunderland, 9 ; brig Commerzieweathin Haupt, of Mecklenburg, n ; schooner Test, South ampton, 6 ; brigantine, Tabaco, of Hamburg, 5 ; bark Atlas, of North Shields, 13 ; Norwegian bark Sirius, saved vessel, 1; brig Anne and Mary, North Shields, 9 ; ship Savoir Faire, of Liverpool, 23 ; brig Raven, of London, saved vessel, and crew, 10 ; schooner Token, of Jersey, 6 ; ship Orso, of North Shields, 21; smack Mary, of Cardigan, 1 ; steamer Barbadian, of Liverpool, 4 ; schooner Daniel O'Con nell, of Arklow, 5 ; brig Lucy, of Sunderland, 6 ; brig Zeeploeg, of Hoogez, 7 ; schooner Williamson, of Veesdam, 1; and ship Senasserim, of Liverpool, 34 ; making a total of 479 persons saved from ship wreck by the lifeboats. The institution has granted rewards and several silver medals and other hono rary acknowledgments to the crews of fishing-boats and others for rescuing 182 persons from various wrecks on our coasts ; giving altogether a grand total of 661 lives saved from death during the past year—mainly through the instrumentality and en couragement of the National Lifeboat Institution. For these joint services and exercising the lifeboats every quarter, the society has paid £4,871. Who that haS seen some of these lifeboats put off in the very fury of the storm—has watched their success ful fight with the elements, and has seen the same boats return laden with human life, that has not felt a deep emotion, such as one cannot but experience when witnessing some heroic and self-denying act? The institution has already paid this year £21,374 on various lifeboat stations. Since its formation it has expended altogether £128,859 on its 153 lifeboat establishments. The demands on the society con tinue to be very heavy for payments on lifeboat establishments. It is therefore earnestly hoped that the public at large will continue to strengthen the hands of its committee in carrying out the great and national objects of the lifeboat institution. We may add that contributions are received by all the bankers in the United Kingdom to the credit of the society, and by its secretary, Mr. Richard Lewis, at the office, John-street, Adelphi, London. A SCENE IN THE ITALIAN C HAMBER.—TO -day was the great fight in the Chamber, which satisfied its ardent longing to assail Ministers and put them on their mettle. Pretext was taken of an interpellation by Niece, directed against the Royal decree granting the ser vice of the Treasury to the Bank—a grave question in deed, and which assumed frightful proportions. Boggio, Crispi, Valerio, all against Ministers ; even Devincenzi, the upholder of Government, breaking out against the official bench. In defence of the poor Cabinet, Broglio alone stood up, proposing a certain suspensive question— an anchor of salvation cast out to the dying. Tho Chamber laughed. Mancini pressed upon the Ministry, and alluded to certain intentions of dissolving the Chamber. La Mar mora got furious and cried out that, if necessary, he had courage enough to decree the dissolution. Furious in its turn, the Chamber stormed horribly. The President was obliged to quit his chair and put on his hat. Crispi shouted, "Go to school, Signor La Marmora !" "Go there yourself !" retorted the General. The twipgides of the Chamber shook their fists at each other, and the left exclaimed, "Bismark ! Bismark !" and treated La Mar mora as a corporal, and inquired if Florence was in Prussia. General La Marmora tried to explain and extenuate his words, and said that if the Chamber were to be dissolved it would be done in a constitutional manner. This seemed rather to add fuel to flame, by confirming the idea that a dissolution really was intended. Amid great agitation Broglio's suspensive motion was rejected, and Valerio's, which forbade the carrying out of tho decree relating to the Treasury, was voted by an immense majority. Gen. ha Marmora left the Palazzo Vecchio in company with Baron Malaret. It is well known that with the present Chamber no Ministry is possible. For this state of things thanks are duo to the sagacity of Baron Natoli. The affair of the Treasury was a more pretext. Henceforward we know how things stand, and parties have no longer any motive for hesitation and uncertainty.—ltalian paper. To PRESERVE SALMON.—Let us suppose that, instead of neglecting the fry in our river for the whole two years of their childhood, we had from the time they were a few weeks old, commenced netting the river with a small meshed net : a net not more than an inch square in the mesh ; suppose we had dragged it wherever a fish was likely to be, and killed everything which could not pass through this inch mesh ; we could not possibly do any harm to the salmon fry, for they could at all times easily pass through : and everything that could not pass through would, most certainly, not be a young salmon, and if not a salmon, would, as certainly, be a fish which preyed upon salmon fry, and ought to be kept out of every salmon river. This dragging of the river should never cease in season, or out of season, while there is a herd of vermin to be caught. —Dickens's "All the Year Round." A. (( • 11Lat ITU ri ----- 611 .i5.--: - .. i HER MAJESTY• OSBORNE, Dec. 28. Her Serene Highness Princess Leiningen visited her Majesty yesterday morning, and drove out with her Majesty and remained to luncheon. Her Royal Highness Princess Louise, attended by Lady Churchill, drove out. Earl and Countess Cowley arrived at Osborne, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and royal family. The Queen held a Council to-day, which was attended by Sir George Grey, Mr. T. Milner Gib son, and Mr. C. P. Villiers. Sir George Grey had an audience of the Queen. Mr. Helps was Clerk of the Council. Lord Palmerston's Will. - -- 0 The will of the Right Hon. Henry John Viscount Palmerston, K.G., G.C.8., was proved in the prin cipal registry of her Majesty's Court of Probate on the 22d inst. The executors appointed are his relict, the Right Hon. Emily Mary Viscountess Palmerston, and her second son, the Right Hon.. William Francis Cowper, but the latter only proved the will. Power is reserved to Lady Palmerston to do so hereafter. The will is dated Nov. 22, 1864. It occupies only four brief sheets. The last sheet bears his lordship's signature, " Palmerston," in a firm and clear hand. The personalty was sworn under £120,000. His lordship confirms to his wife all her trinkets, jewels, and paraphernalia, and all things constituting her ladyship's separate property, and also leaves to her ladyship absolutely his car riages and horses, and the wines and consumable stores at Cambridge•-house and Broadlands. The deceased Premier has left his letters and papers to Lady Palmerston, which her ladyship is to retain or deal with as she thinks proper. His lordship leaves to his brothers-in-law, the Right Hon. Laur ence Sullivan and Admiral Sir Wm. Bowles, and to his friends Sir George Shee, Bart., and Sir George Bowles, legacies of £lO5 each, and to his executor, the Right Hon. W. F. Cowper, six shares in the Welsh Slate Company. The residue of the person alty his lordship bequeaths to Lady Palmerston for life, when (with the exception of 18 shares in the Welsh Slate Company, which her ladyship may appoint and dispose of as she thinks proper) it is to revert to her son, the Right Hon. W. F. Cowper. His lordship has also left to Lady Palmerston a life interest in all his real and leasehold estates as well in Ireland as in Great Britain, and on her ladyship's decease they are devised to her said son absolutely, and the testator expresses his earnest wish (but without imposing any obligation on the devisee) that the right hon. gentleman will, immediately on coming into possession of the estates, apply for her Majesty's license and authority for him and his des cendants to take and use the surname of " Temple," either in substitution for, or addition to, that of " Cowper," but so that " Temple" be the final name, and that the family arms of " Temple " be quartered with those of " Cowper." Overland Communication with China• ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 23. The following official notice with respect to in creased facilities of overland postal and parcels com munication with China has just been published by the Russian post-office : " In consequence of information received from the Governor-General of Eastern Siberia, the postal department has to inform the public that postal communication was opened on the sth of last Octo ber between Kiakhta and Tien-twin, by way of Ourga, Kalgane, and Pekin. Single letters, or letters containing enclosures of money or documents, as also parcels and telegraphic de spatches, are forwarded four times a month both ways, at the undermentioned dates : " In the direction of Kiakhta to Pekin—from Kiakhta, the sth, 12th, 19th, 26th ; from Ourga, the 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th ; from Kalgane, the 6th, 23d, 30th, 7th ; from Pekin, the Bth, 25th, 2d, 9th. In the direction of Pekin to Kiakhta—From Pekin, the 4th, 11th, 20th, 27th ; from Kalgane, the 6th, 13th, 22d, 29th ; from Ourga, the 15th, 22d, Ist, Bth ; from Kiakhta, 17th, 24th, 3d, 10th. " The charge upon correspondence for China is fixed as follows :—a. The charge from the point of departure in the interior of the empire to the fron tier post-office at Kiakhta is the rate fixed by the postal tariff for the interior. b. The charges be tween Kiakhta, Ourga, Kalgane, Pekin, and Tien tsin are : "a. Single rate-1. For every single letter with documents, credit or bank notes, small objects in silver or gold, and for telegraphic despatches, per loth (half ounce)—From Kiakhta to Tien-tsin, Pekin, and Kalgane, and vice versa, 30 copecks ; from Kiakhta to Ourga, and vice versa, 10 copecks ; from Ourga to Tien-tsin, Pekin, and Kalgane, and vice versa, 20 copecks ; from Tien-tsin to Pekin and Kalgane, and vice versa, 10 copecks. " 2. For parcels, ordinary or containing docu ments, per livre (pound)—From Kiakhta to Tien tsin, Pekin, and Kalgane, and vice versa 40 copecks for single parcels, and 65 copecks if they contain documents ; from Kiakhta to Ourga and vice versa, for single parcels, 15 copecks—with documents, 25 copecks ; from Ourga to Tien-tsin,Tekin, and Kai gane, and vice versa, for single parcels, 25 copecks —with documents, 40 copecks ; from Tien-tsin to Pekin and Kalgane, and vice versa, for single par cels, 15 copecks—with documents 25 copecks. " 3. Parcels containing objects of value, if weigh ing under a pound, will be charged letter rate upon every loth ( ounce), if weighing ;exactly a pound or over, will pay per pound parcel rate. Coin and goldsmiths' work can only be forwarded by the Mongol post in parcels not exceeding 101 b. weight, packages included. Parcels containing coin or goldsmiths' work should be packed in the most substantial manner. "b. Charges upon unpaid parcels are reckoned in the same proportion as for their transmission from the point of departure in the interior of the empire to the frontier post-offibe at Kiakhta. " The charge of couriers between Kiakhta and Tien-tsin is for one horse 98 roubles, for two 1 47 roubles. The department thinks right to add that the post leaves St. Petersburg for Kiakhta every Tuesday and Friday, and reaches Kiakhta in five weeks." DEATH OF LORD EDWARD PERCY ST. MAUR! Information was received yesterday by the Duke of Sower set of the death of his youngest son, Lord Edward Percy St. Maur, which took place on the 18th inst. at Bombay' The telegram states that his lordship was shot in the kne e on the 14th inst., and that he had to undergo an operation in consequence of the serious injury he had sustained. MR. RUSSELL GURNEY, M.P., AND HIS CONS' TUENTS.—The member for Southampton has ad dressed the following letter to one of his constituents :"'" "8, Palace-gardens, London, W., Dec. 23, 1865.—My dear Sir,—You will have seen from a paragraph which has Sr p ea red in the newspapers that, supposing arrangem ent° satisfactory to the Corporation of London are made for till due performance of my duties as recorder, I have cc:also:o'. to act on the commission which is about to be appointed to inquire into the circumstances attending the recent die turbances in Jamaica. I very much regret that one cee sequence of this shall be that I shall necessarily be P r o f vented attending Parliament during the first few week s the session. I trust, however, that you and illy other friends at S ou th am pt o n will feel that the importance of tlie duties in which I shall be engaged will justify that 111) ; Bence. The o ffi ce was not sought for by me, and becl,o consulted my own ease or my own wishes I should ht . ; ' persisted in declining it. The inquiry is one the imPe", : ance of which it would be di ffi cult to over-estinis" Feeling this, I thought that I was not the person to lee tide upon my fitness to conduct it, and that I ba d li t i right to shrink either from the labour or the ant le ra attendant upon it when I was assured by those on /"1,.,° the responsibility of the appointment rested that acceptance of the office would be conducive to the P . j interest. Trusting that my constituents will not thil ;i , have acted unwisely in this matter, I remain, drc., Et rss GURNEY." tai tt The G lobe contradicts the statement tha t cer of Lord Palmerston's effects at Cambridge-house are toar; sold. Any sale in connection with the cont ents of _ bridge-house must, it is said, relate to the property ° John Sutton, not of Lord Palmerston. COMMERCIAL. Exchange on London, 251 251. Coffee—Good first, 6,800 to 7,000 reis. Shipments since the departure of the last mail, 93,838 bags, of which 31,590 were for the Channel. Sales, 160,000 . bags; stock, 130,000. Freights for the Channel, 471 50. BAHIA, Dec. 13. Exchange on London, 261 27. Cotton, 17,000 to 17,200 reis. Sugar, browns, 2,000 to 2,300 reis. PERNAMBUCO, Dec. 16. Exchange on London, 28 281. Sugar, whites, 4,600 to 4,700 rein; browns, 2,000 to 2,400 refs. Cotton, 16,200 to 16,300. The Estramadura arrived at Pernambuco on the 13th. LISBON, Dec. 28. The Royal Mail Company's steamer Duro, from the Brazils, arrived here to-day. LISBON, Dec. 28. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Douro has arrived from the Brazils, and will sail at noon to-day for Southampton, with 66 passengers, 285 bags of coffee, 1,981 bales of cotton, /30 rolls of tobacco, and 251 packages of sundries. Specie, £39,950. The Oneida, with the out ward mails of the 9th December, sailed from St. Vincent on the evening of the 21st inst. INDIA. (BY DIRECT OVERLAND TELEGRAPH.) BOMBAY, Dec. 22, 4 p.m. Manchester goods firm and advancing. Cotton ad vancing—dhollerah 440 r. Shipments of cotton during the week, 35,000 bales, _ _ , . Exchange on London, 2s. 11d. Government Securities Four per Cents., 88-1 ; Five per Cents., 103 ; Five-and-a-Half per Cents., 108-1-. Freights, 355. The latest London date is the 7th of December. CALCUTTA, Dec. 21. Seven pound shirtings, 7r. 14a. Exchange on London, 2s. lid. Freights, 455. The rate of discount has been raised 1 per cent. FRANCE. A Council of Ministers was held yesterday at the Tuileries, the Emperor presiding. On the occasion of the late visit of the Emperor and Empress to the Tribunal of Commerce, his Majesty, on arriving at the grand vestibule, where the members of the council were assembled, con- ferred on M. Berthier, President of the Tribunal, the cross of Officer of the Legion of Honour, and on M. Basset, one of the judges, that of Knight ; 21so when visiting the hall reserved for the sittings of the Council of Prud'hommes, his Majesty expressed his sense of the services rendered by that body, and also conferred the cross of Knight on M. Thierry, a mas- ter, and on M. Boulon, a workman, each of whom had been in functions as members for 18 years. Business commenced yesterday in the new tribunal, M. Berthier first pronouncing an inaugural address The Emperor has just decided that General 01 Division Count de la Rue shall preserve his func- tions as permanent inspector-general of gendarmery. The honourable Senator is President of the Coin- mittee of that arm, but being 70 years of age, he was liable to the effects of the decree which relieves definitively from active service the generals of divi sion, senators, who have attained that limit. The Emperor makes for General de la Rue a flattering exception. By that officer's functions of inspector general all the reports of the Gendarmery of the Empire are centred in his hands, and he is also in direct communication with the Sovereign. His post is, therefore, a ministry of police on a small scale. By an Imperial decree, issued at the instance of the Minister of the Emperor's Household and Fine Arts, M. Robert Fleury, member of the Institute and Director of the School of Fine Arts, is ap pointed Director of the Imperial Academy of France at Rome, for six years, in the place of M. Schnetz, whose mission has expired. By another decree M. Guillaume, member of the Institute, and professor at the School of Fine Arts, is appointed Director of that establishment for five years, in the place of M. Robert Fleury. _ _ The Moniteur publishes an Imperial decree de daring of public utility the construction of a rail way from Vassy to St. Dizier, and sanctioning a provisional convention signed on the 23d inst. be tween the Minister of Public Works, on the one part, and Baron A. de Rothschild, MM. Danelle, du Chaulaire, Cornuel, and Guyard, on the other, granting the concession of the said line. The decree also approves of the treaty signed on the 24th April last, between the above-named parties and the Eastern Railway Company, for the execution and working of the said line, on condition that the com pany shall keep a separate account of the working expenses and receipts of the line. The shares are not to be negotiable until two-fifths of their amount shall have been paid up. It may be remembered that the Civil Tribunal of Modena was some time since called on to try a suit instituted by the Prince de Crony-Chanel, who claims the title of Marquis d'Este as a direct de scendant of the Arpads of Hungary, who were invested with that title. The ex-Duke of Modena opposed the claim, but denied the competence of the ordinary tribunals to entertain the question. 'e Royal Court of Appeal of Modena has, how ever, just given a judgment rejecting the pretensions of the ex-Duke and affirming the competence of the Civil Tribunal. Francis d'Este, abandoning a sys tem which could not be sustained, has just appealed to the Court of Cassation against the decision given in favour of the Prince de Crouy-Chanel, and by so doing has consequently recognised the jurisdic tion of the ordinary judges. The Roman Archaeological Academy has just held its first sitting for the present season, M. Sal vator Betti presiding. M. Visconti, the perpetual secretary, announced the death of Mgr. Cavedoni, corresponding member at Modena, and briefly re capitulated that prelate's extensive labours. He then stated that the new excavations made in the Palatine Mount, under the direction of Baron Bal dins, Minister of Public Works, for the purpose of discovering further remains of the Emperor's Palace, had been crowned with success. A suite of rooms had been cleared, in which were many well-preserved frescoes and bas-reliefs. There bad also been found a bust of Britannicus of the best epoch, a fine statue seated, without the head, numerous fragments of bas-reliefs, and marble columns. The excavations at Ostia had also been resumed, and had brought to light several inscrip tions of the good epoch of the Roman Empire, and a t l u , a mosaic sai in c a tomb o n thea well-preserved mosaic. In the excavations made by Mgr. Guidi, i n hi s v i n eyards near the baths of C la ra ca ht found had b ee n discovered ,ippia Appian l\resem blingray. It ropre3ents a human size, reclining on a bed,• • and pointing to an in scription in Greek of " Know thyself !" That sentence in the foreign language would seem to in dicate that the mosaic belongs to the time of the Antonini's. In the same neighbourhood, near the villa Quintilli, a fine statue of a woman without the head had also been found. Galignani says we have often had occasion to mention Dr. Demarquay's important communica tions to the Academy of Sciences on the therapeutic effects of various gaseous substances. The special researches he has for many years pursued in this line impart peculiar interest to the work he has just published, entitled—" Essai de Pneumatologie Medic,ale," in which we find the following facts con cerning nitrogen, which, it should be remembered, The the ad' broker: cent. fc have bi It w. the B notes a Active Bullion Public ] Other I Seven I Govern Other S Notes I The derabli while I £810,( the ad The deelin( little I the se sots at count. are 86 per Cc Bus tinued impro• cashin South tropol The duced as we] Exchr consec most per Loan, 27i 2 the C Tla( the o have Bai any 3 Comr Engli Lafitt Stean Thi made Janu $ per I Do. 3 per i New t] New Do. Annui Do. Do 1 Bache Bank Do INn Indiai Do Do. Do. Do. Austr Brazil Do. Rost Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do Do, Egyp 1)o Do Do Greel Do Do Do Civat Do Italia Do Do Do Do Mexi Do Russ Dc Sard D( Spar Di D( DI Simi Save Tur: Yen .A.us Bel Dut Frei Itali qui ,