The Sun. — London, England, 1865-12-06 00:00:00

OUSES.—Messrs. TOPLIS and ROBERTS have numerous furnished and unfurnished TOWN, 'uburbau, and Country RESIDENCES to LET or SELL. Particulars forwarded for three stamps, upon stating exact requirements and rental. Offices, 2, Conduit-street, Regent street, and South liensington, lacing the Museum. SOUTH KENSINGTON, HYDE-PARK, Queen's, and Rutland Gates , Q ueen's- g ate and Peters ham Terraces, Q u een's -gate, Cornw all, and Princes Gardens, Elvaston-place, Cromwell-road, Onslow and Thurloe Squares, Bolton& &c. Mebsrs TOPLI4 and ROBERTS have RESI DENCES to SELL and LET in these and surrounding S Offices, 2, Conduit-street Regent-street, and South Kensington, facing the Museum., LIFEBOAT t S enty-tw EßVl o CES months the .—llari National Lila'ng the storms of the past w,At Institution, by its Lifeboats and ocher means, contributed to the Navin; of 1,188 persons from tlifferent wrecks on our pccoariA sts. The Institution ek also exp .C 37781 I the sae on its lifeboat tablishmeuts, ended ad in dition n to grantiu m g .£!,711 as rewards. The Committee of the Institution earnestly A PPEAL to the public for ASSISTANCE to enable them to meet the continued heavy demands on the Institution's 152 lifeboat establishments. Contributions arc received by the London and country bankers ; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, Landon. NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND. 112, Bishopsgate-street, London, Dec. 5. 186.5. The Directors of the National Provincia l Bank of England HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that a Half-yearly Dividend at the rate of Eight per cent. per annum, and a Hilt-yearly Bonus of Six per cent., will be PAYABLE on the Com pany's Stock on and after the 9 th da y of January next, when the Dividend and Bonus Warrants will be obtained at the Company's office, No. 112, Bishopsgate-street, or at the dif ferent Branches. The Transfer Books will be Closed on awl after Saturday, the 9th instant, until the Dividend and Bonus become pay ab:e. By order of the Court of °hectors, A. ROBERTSON, Agent and Manager. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Signor ARDITPS CONCERTS, Every Evening. POSITIV ELY THE T LAS WEEK BUT ONE. TO-NIGHT tWednesday), December 6. VOCALISTS. Dldlle. Laura Harris 111dile Sarolta, or St Edi, na nd Mdlle. Sinico ; Signor Foli and Sign. VIOLIN. 3ldlle. Emilia Arditi. THE ORCHESTRA OF HER MAJESTY S TrIEAIRF. Conductor —Sig-nor ARDITI. Commence at Eight. Promenade, One Shilling. The GRAND BAL D'OP ERA. will take plate on TUESDAY, the 19th December. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. (Opera Company, Limited.) Revival of Le Domino Noir. Louisa Pyne—J. G. Patey—Henry Haigh. THIS EVENING will be performed A über's celebrated Opera, L DOMINO NOIR. Angela. Miss Pyno ; ; Brigitta, Miss Thirlwall Jacintha. Miss Leffler ; Ursula, Mrn A. Cook ; Gil Perez, Mr. J. G. Patey this first appearance in that character); Don Julian, Mr. C. Lyall ; Prince Grum boff, Mr. E. Dussek ; and Horace, Mr. Henry Haigh. Conductor, lBlr. Alire I Mellon. After which, the Grand Ballet, GITTA LA BALLERINA. Mdlle. Ducbateau Moutero, Carey, Boreial, and Pancaldi ; Mr. IL Payne and M. Desplaces. Acting Manager, Mr, E. Murray, Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Commence at a quarter to 8. TIEATRE ROY IL, DRURY-LANE.- anagers,, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with Sha ks ere's Tragedy or KIA G JOHN: Messrs. Phelps, James Anderson, T. Swinbourne, Raynor. G. Belmore, E. Phelps, C. Harcourt; Miss Atkinson, Mrs. H. Vandenhoff, Mrs. Hodson, &c. After which, GLIAV AY-GO-BRAGH ; or, Love, Fun, and Fighting : Messrs. Edmund Falcmier, F. Hamby, C. Harcourt; Misses liazlewood, E. Falconer, txose Leclercq. Commence at 7. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.— Sole Lessee and Mantg,er, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, THE OVERLAND ROUTE : Messrs Chas. Mathews. Buckstone, Chippendale, Compton. Rog‘rs, Clark. Gordon, Braid, Coe, &o. ; Messdames Maihews, Snow den, Hill. Wright, Coleman, Lovell, &c. To be followed by WHO KILLED COCK ROBIN? Mr. Chippendale, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Fitzwilliam. &c. Concluding with THE BALLET. Messrs. Arthur and Charles Leclercq. Miss Fanny n right, Miss C. Adams, and the Corps de Bailet. Commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM T REATRE.— Under the sole Management of Mr. Fechter. THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock, THE DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Mr. and Mrs. Horsman. After which, at 8, a New Drama, entitled THE WATCH citr. Air Fechter, supported by Messrs. H. Wid , iicombe, S. Emery, C. Horsman, Raymond, Fitzpatric: 7 , Clifford. and Miss Elsworthy. To conclude with the Farce of NURSEY CII ICKWEED. Messrs. 11. Widdicomb, Itt,ymond, Moreland; Mrs. Lee and Miss Lavenu. Box Office open daily from Eleven till Five. Acting Manager, 11. Barnett. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL ADELPHI Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, at 7, 3IOTHEit AND CHILD ARE DOING WELL. Messrs. Felix hovers, I. Bedford, &o. - - After which, at 8, Ml' VAN WINKLE. Kip this 81st appearance). Mr. Jefferson, supporica by Messrs. Billington, 1". Bedford, It Phillips, Felix Itog,rs, Abhley, hburne, C. J. Smith; Mrs. Biliingtor, &c. To c nclude, at halt-past 10, with THE WIDOW'S VICTIM. Messrs NI ington, Felix Rogers, Ashley; Miss Codsell, Miss seaman, and Miss Jenny ‘Villmore. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, 31r. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, QUIET LODGINGS. After which, at a quarter to Eight, IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO 3IEND. c haracters by Messrs. Vining, T. Mel ville, T. Mead, D. Murray, ti. Cathaem. F. Villiers, J. G. Shore, G. Murray, 11. Mellon, C. Seyton, R. Cathcart: Miss L. Moore and Miss Katherine Rodgers. ROYAL SIRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs c wanborough. THIS EVENING, at Seven, NOTHING VENTURE NuTHING WIN. Atter whin will be produced a new Opera Burlesque, L'AFRICAINE ; or, The Queen of the Cannibal Islan : Messrs. Stoyle, James, Thorne ; Mesdames Swanborough, Itaynham, Johnstone, aza. To ootclude with MRS. GREEN'S SNUG BUSINESS. ifiIIE LAST EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing - the Latest SPURTING IN TELLIGE.N C Oan be had livery Evening of G. R. GLItNIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrat e, Hyde-park. I IHE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN" 1.. supplied, as soon as published every Evening', by W. ALEXANDER (late BROOKS), Newspaper Agent, 24, Old Cavendisb- A treet, Oxford-street. THE LAST EDITION of " TIIE SUN " supplied as soon as Published, containing all the LATEST NEWS and SPORTING - INTELLIGENCE, by 11. W. HARRIS, Ne.vspaper Agent, 4, Blackiria.rs-road. London, S. TIIE LATEST EDITION of "THE SUN." lIOLaiES begs to inform his friends, and the pubic generally, that he supplies the LATEST EDIT luN of THE SUN" as soon as published —No. 16, Hampstead road, N.W. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 4h. 20m.—Afternoon, 4h. 40m. 9: J-Momtow.-Morning, sh. Om.--Afternoon, sh. 25m. tilt, 44007 1111 t., LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 6, 1865. Every account which is received from Jamaica tends to confirm the assertion that the course adopted by Governor EYRE has been in reality the most humane and the most efficacious. Thanks to his promptness and firmness, tranquillity is now well nigh restored. The rebellion is now at an end, and courts-martial are suspended. The Governor, dan having given indisputa ble evidence of his power determination to repress the outbreak with a strong hand, he is now able to relax the sternness which was at first absolutely necessary, and, by offering an amnesty, to show mercy as well as justice. He has issued an announcement calling the attention of persons to the severe penalties which will be awarded to any one who " receives, shelters, conceals, or refreshes, or in any manner assists any person con cerned in the rebellion," and all who thus trans gress are warned that they will be dealt with rigorously. Almost every one known to have taken part as leader in the rebellion has been executed, or at least put out of the way of doing further mis chief. The troops have been distributed at various important stations, and every other precautionary measure taken. The result is that there is a general desire on the part of the negroes to re enter the pale of law, by availing themselves of the amnesty offered to them, and many of them have resumed work in the estates in the disturbed districts. The Colonial Standard, of November 6, writing when the outbreak had been completely repressed, says simp l y , The one great f eature of the rebellion was that it p rofessed to aim at th e reform of no wrong, but simply at the destruction of the whites and browns, and the confiscation of their property for the benefit of the blacks. Murder—cold-blooded, cowardly, and indiscrimi• nate—was the prime means adopted to effect the desired end." What will our humanitarians say to this cal m and positive statement, made in a journal which should certainly h ave itulex mow of infor mation than the London press ? Those gentlemen who have been as eloquent in their lamentations over the death of Mr. GORDON, and so liberal in their anathemas against his , Fmurderers," will be probably still more incensed when they learn that it has been formed necessary to hang the overseer of his estate likewise. " Several letters found in LAWRENCE'S possession afford additional proof of how deep had been the traitorous machinations of the rebels, at whose head stood, G. W. GORDON." Litera scripta manet, says the old Latin adage, and perhaps when our English humanitarians see these letters with their own eyes they may believe the truth of which it is impossible at present to convince them. The same account says—" It has been ascertained beyond the shadow of a doubt that GEORGE W. GORDON was the person wha wrote, got printed, and circulated among the peasantry the seditious and treasonable placard inciting the people to rebellion." . Thus we find that this man, who has been held up as the martyr of an unfounded panic, was really a prin cipal agent in a movement which was directed towards the entire overthrow of English authority in Jamaica. No doubt those who were instrumental in stirring up the negro were not in every case fully aware of the mischief which they were effecting ; but the man who plays with fire is not to be excused because he did not accurately measure the full amount of destruction he would work. The recent events in America, and the establishment of negro dominion at Hayti, all tended to fan the flame and the instigators to rebellion, and the declaimers about negro rights found very ready materials to work upon. We may depend upon it that the conspiracy was as extended as it was dangerous, and that had it not been for a happy accident hastening the com mencement of the outbreak, we should have had scenes of bloodshed and cruelty such as are only witnessed when uncivilised man breaks through the restraints which a superior race has imposed on him. Among the partizans of Governor EYRE, whom the late unwarrantable and unjust attacks have called forth in his defence, we may now rank his sister, Miss EYRE, who has addressed a contemporary in terms of indignant remonstrance. She reiterates the assertion, already made in several quarters, that Mr. EYRE has all his life been a consistent advo cate of the coloured race, and as such held the office of Protector of the Aborigines in South Aus tralia. She adds that "in all his previous Govern ments he has never been charged with abitrary conduct or injustice," from which she draws the very natural and reasonable conclusion " that his revilers ought to make so much allowance for a man placed in a very difficult and dangerous position as to wait till they have full evidence that he has been criminal before they condemn him." Miss EYRE asks, as she has good right to do, what would have been said of Governor EYRE if he had really " lost his head with fright" and lost England Jamaica? And she gives us an interesting piece of family history in the reminder that Mr. EYRE is the lineal descendant of that Sir GERVAS EYRE, the Governor of Newark in the days of CHARLES 1., of whom it was said that " had the KING had many such sol- diers he would neither have lost his crown nor his life." Similar praise will, no doubt, be accorded to the Governor of Jamaica when the whole truth is unfolded. It would seem as if a decided settlement of affairs and a perfect entente cordiale are never to be reached by the two great German Powers in respect to the vexed question of the Duchies of Schleswig-Hol stein. As time passes, and people naturally expect that some final arrangement will be come to, we only hear of proposals being made, and schemes propounded by one side and the other, and, after a decent interval has elapsed, they fall to the ground, either from meeting with a decided refusal, or from being disregarded and treated with contempt. So will it be for some time to come, no doubt, for the arch - conspirators have got themselves into a complete fix, and, for the present at any rate, no solution is likely to be found: The last intelligence of a definite nature that reaches us is to the effect that the Prince of HOIIENZOLLERN-SIGMARINGEN, who is a distant relative of the King of PRUSSIA, has been sent to Vienna with an autograph letter from King WIL LIAM to the Emperor. The purport of the despatch is said to have reference to the question of the Duchies. The Emperor and his Govern ment are now, however, a little more alive than they used to be to the danger of con ceding too much to the tactics of Prussia, and it is noticeable that for some time past very little heed has been paid by the authorities at Vienna to the suggestions of the councils at Berlin ; so that we need not look for much to arise out of the transaction. The doings of the candidates for the honour of ruling over the realms is really ludicrous, and the manner in which they put forward and withdraw their claims reminds one of the game of hide-and-seek. It is said that the Duke of OLDENBURG has announced his determination to renounce his claims on the Elbe Duchies, because he has not met with much encouragement on the subject from the CZAR, but he has not with drawn his previous application to the Diet. We may fairly conclude then that he will keep his claims in reserve to be pressed forward at any par ticular juncture that he may deem expedient or propitious. The decision of the court-martial that has been held on Count EULENBERG will fill the minds of the people of this country with indigna tion, although we cannot think they will be surprised, judging from the tone before taken in high quarters on the subject. The dastardly attack made on harmless men, by a party of lawless individuals, is still fresh in the recollection of all ; and to crown the catastrophe this Count EIJLENBERG killed M. OTT, a Frenchman in the service of our Royal Family, then proceed ing to fulfil his duties at Coburg. From the first moment the scan d a l ous ou t rage became known great indignatio n was ex p resse d i n E ng l a nd a nd France ; but in Germany most insulting indif ference pervaded • g a d M. OTT killed the Count no doubt language would have proved inadequate to declare all that was felt on the subject by the inha bitants of the Fatherland. As • it is, however, they have all along given us and the French to under stand that they thought too much fuss by half had b een made of the affair. The court-martial that has been sitting in judgment on the offender evi dently acquiesces in the national opinion, which is a mockery of justice to have arrived at the d ec i s i on they have come to. The Count is sentenced to nine months' honourable imprisonment in a casemate. Comment on such a decision is hardly necessary, but it may surely be said that the pursuance of such a course is not likely to prove deterrent to those who may be tempted to emulate the conduct of the Count. It is holding out a premium to young German nobles to treat thus tamely and unsuitably the unpardonable outrage referred to. Why the imprisonment should be classed as " honourable" passes the understanding of impartial judges, but it is to be presumed that it is done for the sake of letting clear the culprit easily, and for the purpose of sustaining the dignity of the country, which has been assailed by the unceremonious remarks made in various quarters. The time may come when this affair of M, OT T may b rememberei to the disad- THE SUN, ...LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 6, 18b5. vantage of the Prussians when they are not quite so omnipotent as they are now, nor so unwisely allowed to have their own way. Austrian affairs are also most confused and complicated at present, and, notwith standing the great exertions that are being made by the Government, very little is really being effected, and it cannot be said that any prac tical result has been arrived at. The Ban of Croatia has been summoned to the Council at Vienna, and his departure from Agram was the signal for a kind of demonstration being made. One of:the national party addressed him, and urged upon him the necessity of making known to the Imperial Government the state of public feeling in that locality. M. CEPULIST, as Vice-President of the Diet of the three united kingdoms of Croatia, Slavonia, and Dalmatia, declared that it was expedient to tell the E3l - that they had no other wish than to see their native country form part of a great, undivided, and constitutional Austria, "all the com ponent parts of which shall enjoy equal privileges." It was also stated to the Ban, as part of his mes sage, that great regret was experienced at the with drawal from the Diet of many members who disa greed as to the interpretation of the Standing Orders. These dissentients have referred the case in question to the Imperial Government as an arbitrator, in stead of settling the matter at home. It is stated that the EMPEROR is, on the whole, dissatisfied with the doings of the Ban, and perhaps this is no more than we might have expected under the circumstances of the case. Talk as they may, there is no real desire on the part of the Imperial Government to witness an inde pendent constitution, or a free expression of opinion, in the several States of the Empire. The difficulties that environ the Austrians doubtless afford satisfac tion to the Cabinet of Berlin. The wily BISMARCK has never been at a loss to take advantage of the troubles of others ; and, be they friend or foe, it is all the same. It is said that a semi-official paper has denied the assertions of a Paris journal, to the effect that Herr Herr von BISMARCK instructed the President of the Bank of Prussia to raise the rate of the 9th May dis count should any Prussian banking house take up any of the Austrian Loan. This may or may not be true, but it shows the state of things when such a rumour gets afloat, and the credence that has been attached to it speaks volumes as to the con duct of the Prussian Minister. It would seem as if the two German Powers could neither be honest, fair, nor faithful friends according to the interpreta tion of the terms by the laws of chivalry and honour. It seems that the arrangements entered into with the Bhootanese are not at all of a satisfactory na ture. It has from the first been a mismanaged affair, and the last bulletins do not improve its character. It is said that the Deb-Rajah and his advisers, who have all along inclined to the pacific side, have intimated to the Engiish authorities that they will not fight, and will yield to every demand provided we increase the stipend which was formerly paid to them for part of the Dooars. This condi tion is, we suppose, based upon the acknowledged intention of the English to retain possession of all the Dooars, but the notion of an increased subsidy to the offenders is certainly a strange con clusion to the long-pending dispute. Bad as this is, there is another side to the question which is still worse. We have always heard of the divided autho rity in Bhootan as a fruitful source of evil, but the latest development of it is that TONGSO PEULOW, the leader of the mischief, is not inclined to agree with the pacific theories of the Deb-Rajah, and means to carry on the war on his own account. The Deb-Rajah is powerless to deal with him, so that one of our columns under General TURNER is forced to undertake the office, and we have accordingly undertaken the expenses of peace and war at the same moment. This seems to be a very strange conclusion to the business, and one which will seri ously encumber our Indian Exchequer. Even with these favourable arrangements, no confidence is placed in the good faith of the Bhootanese, so that we seemed to have solved in a most satisfactory manner the proverb of " How not to do it." MEDITERRANEAN SUBMARINE TELEGRAPIIS.—Our Malta correspondent writes as follows, under date of November 23:—" The interruption which occurred on the 16th inst., in the Malta and Alexandria cable on the Benghazi section has at times interfered with the work ing of the line. At the present moment, however, lam informed that the communication is comparatively satis factory, though I believe it is not likely to continue long so. Immediate steps are to be taken to remove the cause of the present fault, and the telegraph steamer Hawk, which has just successfully completed the repair of the Corfu and Otranto cable, is to be at once de spatched to Benghazi for this purpose." STORM AND FLOOD IN TIIE WEST.—During Sunday and Monday the wind blew with considerable force from various points, veering from the north-east to the south and north-west. This occurring simultaneously with the spring tidos has occasioned floods in some places and wrecks in others, but the port of Plymouth has escaped without harm, although the tide on Monday morning was remarkably high. The tide rose very high at Teignmouth, and did much damage to the houses near the Den, over which the waves dashed. Torbay, St. Austen, Mounts Bay, and other places felt the effects of the storm. COUNT BISMARCK'S VISIT TO FRANCE.— The Memorial Diplomatique declared that it is in a posi tion to clear up the mystery connected with the recent somewhat enigmatical article of the Constitutionnel relative to Count Do Bismarck's visits to Paris and Biarritz. Tho French journals, our contemporary observes, were very naturally delicate of entering on the question, not being very certain how their observations might be received ; but, as it is not constrained to the same reserve, it has no hesitation in explaining what is meant. Accordingly it gives the subjoined particulars :—" In the deep-seated con viction of Count De Bismarck, the annexation of the Elbe Duchies to the Prussian kingdom might be effected with out the slightest difficulty, if France would consent to pre serve a complete neutrality in face of the arrangements in which Prussia flatters herself that sooner or later she shall be able to force Austria to acquiesce. The calculation of that statesman appears to bo this : neither England nor Russia will over draw the sword to save the sovereign inde pendence of the Duchies. Austria herself, whose finances so much require to be husbanded, will not have recourse to war for a cause which in reality does not affect either her interests or her honour. Not being able to offer to Austria any territorial compensation for the abandonment of her rights of co-proprietorship in the Duchies, Count De Bismarck was disposed to offer to the Vienna Cabinet a very large pecuniary indemnity, considerable enough, indeed, to relieve efficaciously all its financial embarrass.. ments. If we aro well informed, he even named the sum of 80,000,000 thalers (300,000,000 francs) as the sum which Prussia would be ready to pay into the Imperial Treasury in return for the renunciation by Austria of her rights of condominium. In order to carry out that project, it became necessary to place the Vienna Cabinet in the impossibility of contracting a loan. Count de Bismarck, who is above all a man of action, himself understood to thwart all the efforts of M. De Beke, sent to Paris with that object by the Aus ' trian Minister of Finance. It was not by a simple coinci dence that the Prussian statesman left Paris for Berlin on the day when M. Do Beke left for London to call on the houses of Baring and Rothschild for a definitive resolution. The Count knew well that the march of negotiations with the llNv,hh ie ß enh o h t t h ei el c e h Aa i r l un d stt h roi o .fa u nt s h e leo a ap t ur o:1 Paris t baleenefdnt concluded hope of success to M. De Beke. His disappointment was only the greater, n h tphl oa yi market. esdsubey O ot f t; treuireaders Prussianlo a n know G ocivue a er l su r t e mi e d nn y . all satisfactory r ai y nn 03t manner huevrEerseenicn i Government to T d he isc f r r e ie d n it d b ly efo s r u e p h p a o n r a t given on this occasion by the French Government to the Austrian Treasury speaks very plainly as to the manner in which the overtures of the Prussian Minister, tending to obtain that the Court of the Tuilieries should close its eyes to the bargain he hoped to make with Austria, must have been received." PRIVATE BILLS. —An official list was yesterday issued, showing that the number of plans deposited at the Private Bill-office of the House of Commons was 450, of which 334 related to railways, and of that number 18 have reference to railways from London to the suburbs. The number of local bills will be increased by the 23d inst when copies of all bills must be lodged at the Private Bil 9140 of tho Rome of c 01211119110, LA TEST INTELLIGENCE. (RELTTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF WASHINGTON. (Via Roche's Point.) NEW YORK, Nov. 25 (Morning). The New York Times says that the Federal Go vernment have no ground for demanding the sur render of the crew of the Shenandoah. The American Consul's acceptance of the sur render of the Shenandoah as a war vessel precludes the Federal Government from complaining against the British authorities for discharging her crew. The recruiting superintendent of Pennsylvania has been ordered to despatch 430 cavalry recruits to the department of the Gulf. The Governor of Alabama, in his message to the Legislature, urges the adoption of the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery, the and passage of a clause for the protection of negroes. President Johnson has informed the Governor of Mississippi that the Federal troops would be with drawn as soon as it is manifest that peace and order can be maintained without them. Measures should be adopted to give freedmen the necessary protec tion to enable them to assume all their constitu tional rights. The Governor of Mississippi, in his message to the Legislature, recommends that negro testimony be received in the courts of justice, and that mea sures be passed for the protection of negroes and for the taxation of negroes to support vagrant blacks. He approved the adoption of a special code for their government. The Governor of Louisiana has called a special session of the Legislature to elect members for Con gress. General Fisk has made a speech, stating that President Johnson had informed him that he in tended to carry out Mr. Lincoln's views and see the freedom of negroes guaranteed. He might not believe in their ultimate attainment, but he meant that they should have a fair chance. The Freedmen's Bureau would be continued until the Southern States resolved to deal honestly and justly by freedmen. A Radical Republican meeting has been held at Dr. Checver's church, in New York, at which speeches were made denouncing President John son's reconstruction policy, and declaring him to be the counsel for the rebel states and the upholder of the secession doctrine. Mr. Seddon and ex-Governors Magrath and Lub beck have been released Qn parole. The United States' Circuit Court of Maryland have decided that the Government tax cannot be deducted from the interest due to foreign stock holders of the American railroads. Mr. Mackenna, the Chihal envoy . to the United States, has made a speech at Panama denouncing the conduct of Spain as a iretext for obtaining a foothold on American soil. A cargo of slaves has lately been landed on the north-west coast of Cuba. The steamer Gambia left New Orleans on the 24th instant with 1,700 bales of cotton for Liver pool. A steamer has arrived at N*ew York with 3,000 bales of cotton from Apalachilla, Florida. The British ship MariannuE has been wrecked off the coast of Georgia. The crew were saved. A British bark, name unknown, coal laden, has been driven ashore and abandined off Savana. Money abundant ; gold, 147 ; Exchange on London, 160 ; do. on Paris, 3.54 ; Stocks steady ; New York Centrals, 97 ; Illinois, 133 ; Erie, 934 ; 5-20 Bonds, 1014 ; cotton dull ; Middling Upland, 53 ; flour firmer ; wheat heavy ; corn quiet ; pro visions declining ; coffee steady ; sugar good in quiry ; molasses dull ; petroleum very firm ; crude, 41 ; refined, 66. NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 23. Cotton dull ;ling Upland, 52 to 53 ; sales to-day 2,200 bEles. MOBILE, Nov. 23. Cotton limited demand ; Middling Upland, 50 ; to-day's sales, 800 bales. MEXICO. NEW YORK, Nov. 5 (Morning). The New York Ihrald publishes adviccs from El Paso to the 20th October, which state that the Im perialists were advancing on that city. It is believed Juarez would shortly go, via California, to the Southern provinces of Mexico. Juarez had levied heavy compulsory loans on the surrounding popula tion. Advices from Rio Grande to November 15, via New Orleans, state that the Republicans were en camped eight miles from Matamoras. Matamoras papers of the 10th November state that no further attack on the city was apprehended. From Vera Cruz, on the 13th November, it is announced that the Imperialists had combined successfully against the guerillas. There is no confir mation of the reported withdrawal of the Impe rialists from the interior of Mexico. The Empress, with a large suite, left for Yacatan on the 6th. BELGIUM. THE KING OF THE BELGIANS. BRUSSELS, DEC. 6. The ILtoniteur Beige of this morning publishes the following bulletin respecting the King's health : " The abdominal symptoms are unaltered. His Majesty recovers his strength but very slowly. (Signed) 4 ' WIMMER. DE ROUBAIX. " Palace of Laeken, Dec. 5." FRANCE. PARIS, DEC. C. M. Behic, Minister of Agriculture, has addressed a report to the Emperor, in which he announces that two gazelles brought over from England had infected with contagious typhus divers animals in the Farm d'Acclimation. An Imperial decree has consequently been published, by which the decrees of the sth Sept. last, prohibiting the importation of such domestic animals as might cause the introduc tion of contagious typhus into France, is extended to all quadrupeds, with the exception of horses, asses, mules, and dogs. BOURSE, Dec. s.—Three o'Clock.—The tone of the market has suddenly changed. Heavy sales for the close have caused Stock and Shares to de cline to even lower prices than yesterday. The following were the last quotations : 4i. per Cents 97 25 Roman Do. end month Ottoman Fives - 3 per Cents. 69 Mexican Loan 5O Do. end month 69 05 Do. Bonds 333 75 Credit Mobilier ... 882 50 Russian - Do. end month ... 885 Austrian Bank Shares 3797 50 Spanish Threes ... Credit Foncier 1330 Rome Debt — Italian Loan 65 10 Deferred Do. end month 65 17 Acct. ... 832 50 ... 1105 - - ~. 837 50 ... 572 50 222 50 436 25 of the indirect taxes, and for the administration of justice, have been decided upon by the Government. The post of Director-General of the Lotteries, with the staff attached thereto, is suppressed. The Patria and the Correspondencia state that the Queen will only return to Madrid after her con finement, and therefore will not be present at the opening of the Cortos. LITERATURE. Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions• Immediately upon the close of the last of his great serial fictions and after thirty years of most indus trious authorship—it is surely very remarkable that Mr. Dickens should now prove himself to be still in all the fullness and freshness of his strength as our Great Master Humorist, as he here incontes ably does, in this glorious green number—the Christmas Number of All the Year Round—" Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions." In his happiest moments, he has never, in fact, been in greater force. So far as the .limits of his canvass will admit, the pic ture drawn here by the hand of this incomparable Artist may take rank with his most delightful and felicitous masterpieces. The character of Doctor Marigold—lightly sketched in though it is with a few rapid touches—is a creation as complete and as perfectly inimitable in its way as any one among the most famous of the other creations of our Novelist. Mere sketch though it is, when placed side by side with such highly ela borated portraitures as those of Mrs. Gamp or Sam Weller, of Mr. Pecksniff or of Wilkins Macawber— Doctor Marigold can hold his own with the very best among them, and can do this, to our thinking, even more triumphantly than that dear old body Mrs. Lirriper I It is so contrary to fact that (as happens very often with others, after a good many years of authorship) Mr. Dickens can be said to have in any way written himself out or to evidence even anything like the beginning of a diminution of his powers—that, on the con trary, his genius reveals itself to us as radiantly as ever it did in his life in the pages he has here devoted to the delineation of Doctor Mari gold. In its breadth of humour, in its vivacity, in its volubility and effervescence, it is as rich and racy as anything lh " Pickwick." The patter of Doctor Marigold, who is a Cheap Jack—the very Prince and Paragon of Cheap Jacks—is as exhilarating as the talk of Sam Weller when we first meet with him as Boots in the Borough, or as he becomes better known to us, still, in the dialogues that take place afterwards between him self and Old. Weller, when Sam has long since settled down as man- servant to Mr. Pick wick. Mr. Dickens's animal spirits—to say nothing of his genius and its originality are fairly inexhaustible. They are, quite certainly, as fresh and buoyant, as elastic and exhilarating as ever they were—even as they were in his earliest days, when, at a single bound, he assumed his position in the very front rank of the imaginative writers of his age and country. That foremost position he has since held uninterruptedly. And long, with God's blessing, may he still continue to hold it to the delight of the present generation ! That he does actually retain his rare and some of them in comparable powers still well in hand at the point of that wonderful pen of his with which at pleasure (not only at his own pleasure, but at ours) he moves us to tears and to laughter, to exquisite tears and to innocent laughter, take (as proof positive) the very opening words of his introduction to "Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions" : I am a Cheap Jack, and my own father's name was Willum Marigold. It was in his lifetime supposed by some that his name was William, but my own father always consistently said, No, it was Willum. On which point I content myself with looking at the argument this way : —lf a man is not allowed to know his own name in a free country, how much is he allowed to know in a land of slavery ? As to looking at the argument through the medium of the register, William Marigold came into the world before Registers come up much—and went out of, it too. They wouldn't have been greatly in his line neither if they had chanced come up before him. I was born on the Queen's highway, but it was the King's at that time. A doctor was fetched to my own mother by my own father, when it took place on a common ; and in consequence of his being a very kind gentleman, and ac cepting no fee but a tea tray, I was named Doctor, out of gratitude and compliment to him. There you have me, Doctor Marigold. I am at present a middle-aged man, of a broadish build, in cords, leggings, and a sleeved waistcoat, the strings of which is always gone behind. Repair them how you will, they go like fiddle-strings. You have been to the theatre, and you have seen one of the wiolin players screw up his wiolin, after listening to it as if it had bean whispering the secret to him that it feared it was out of order, and then you have heard it snap. That's as exactly similar to my waistcoat as a waistcoatand a wiolin can be like one another. I am partial to a white hat, and I like a shawl round my neck wore loose and easy. Sitting down is my favourite posture. If I have a taste in point of personal jewellery, it is mother-of-pearl buttons. There you have me again, as large as life. Recalling to mind, a little later on, the fact that in his early childhood his head " was flaxen curls," Doctor Marigold adds, apologetically, in one of our author's deliciously ridiculous parentheses, "(though you wouldn't know an old heath broom from it no w till you come to the handle and found it wasn't me !)" The first genuine display of Doctor Marigold's genius (for it is nothing less) for the Cheap Jack patter is afforded through his reminiscence of his own father, old Willum's, dying speech—delivered profession ally—from between the blankets. Where the poor used-up old Cheap Jack, " without a tooth in his head and with a pain in every bone," puts himself up for the highest bidder, offering amongst other inducements, when he can't get any bid at all, to " throw you in a warming pan for nothing and lend you a toasting fork for life I" After wards we have Doctor Marigold's own matchless parallel between his professional patter, the patter of the Cheap Jacks, and the political patter of what he calls (with a reason) the Dear Jacks, in the very same market-place—from the platform, not of a cart,but of the hustings. His own lingo_who but the realiser to us of a Mrs. Gamp, or of a Mrs. Lirriper, could ever have dreamt of it ?—" Here's a pair of razors that'll shave you closer than the Board of Guardians"—" Here's a genuine chronometer watch, in such a solid silver case that you may knock at the door with it when you come home late from a social meeting, and rouse your wife and family, and save up your knockers for the postman "—" Stop, again ! I'll throw you in another article, because I don't like the looks of you, for you haven't the appearance of buyers unless I lose by you"— " Now I won't ask you how much for the lot, but how little ? How little do you think of ? Don't be ashamed to mention it ! Why, you're thinking of three and threepence 1 And a set of printed tables in the lot that'll calculate your income up to forty thousand a year ! With an income of forty thou sand a year you grudge three and sixpence. Well, then, I tell you my opinion, I so despise the three pence that I'd sooner take thi ee shillings !" Never was there surely such a Cheap Jack as Doctor Mari gold —in another sense than Byron's footpad in " Doli Juan," (but if possible more intensely)— "So prime, so flash, so nutty, and so knowing !" As another—more comprehensive and most charac teristic—specimen of his irresistible volubility of humour, take his record of his own courtship : "I courted my wife (he says) from the footboard of the cart. I did indeed. She was a Suffolk young woman, anal it was in Ipswich market-place right opposite the corn chandler's shop. I had noticed her up at a window last Saturday that was, appreciating highly. I had took to her, and I said to myself, ' If not already disposed of I'll have that lot.' Next Saturday that come I pitched the cart on the same pitch, and I was in very high feather indeed, keep ing 'em laughing the whole of the time:and getting off the goods briskly. At last I took out of my waistcoat-pocket a small lot wrapped in soft paper, and I put it this way (looking up at the window where she was), Now here my blooming English maidens is an article, the last article of the present evening's sale, which I offer to only you the lovely Suffolk Dumplings biling over with beauty, and I won't take a bid of a thousand pounds for from any man alive. Now, what is it ? Why, I'll tell youwhat it is. It's made of fine gold, and it's not broke, though there's a hole in the middle of it, and it's stronger than any fetter that ever was forged, though it's smaller than any finger in my sot of ten. Why ten ? Because when my parents made over my property to me, I tell you true, there was 12 sheets, 12 towels, 12 tablecloths, 12 knives, 12 forks, 12 tablespoons, and 12 teaspoons, but, my set of fingers was two short of a dozen and could never since be matched. Now, what else is it ? Come, I'll tell you. It's a hoop of solid gold, wrapped in a silver earl-paper that I myself took off the shining locks of the ever beautiful old lady of Threadneedle-street, London city. I wouldn't tell you so if I hadn't the paper to show, or you mightn't believe it even of me. Now, what else is it ? It's a man-trap and a handcuff, the parish stocks and a leg-lock, all in gold, and all in one. Now, what else is it ? It's a wedding ring. Now I'll tell you what I'm a-going to do with it. I'm not a-going to offer this lot for money, but I mean to give it to the next of your beauties that laughs, and I'll pay her a visit to-morrow morning at exactly half after 9 o'clock as the chimes go, and I'll take her out for a walk to put up the banns.' She laughed, and got the ring handed up to her. When I called in the morning, she says, 'Oh dear ' It's never you, and you never mean it ?" It's ever me, says I, and lam ever yours, and I ever mean it.' So we got married, after being put up three times—which, by-the by, is quite in the Cheap Jack way again, and shows once more how the Cheap Jack customs pervade society." Summing up the delights of being a Cheap Jack, thus quoth Dr. Marigold : "We might have had such a pleasant life ! A roomy cart, with the large goods hung outside and the bed slung underneath it when on the road, an iron pot and a kettle, a fireplace for the cold weather, a chimney for the smoke, a hanging shelf and a cupboard, a dog, and a horse. What more do you want a You draw off upon a bit of turf in a green lane or by the roadside, you hobble your old horse and turn him grazing, you light your fire upon the ashes of the last visitors, you cook your stew, and you wouldn't call the Emperor of France your father. But have a temper in the cart, flinging leaguage and the hardest goods in stock at you, and where are Nett then ? Put a name to your feelings." Unhappily, ikowever, his feelings get him down at times (as he expressively puts it) and roll upon him. First of all by reason of his wife turning out a terma gant—next because of his little four-year-old daugh ter, Sophy's, troubles in life and pathetic death in his arms eventually—and last of all, when his wife and child are both gone, and when even his adopted daughter (a deaf and dumb Sophy who has been introduced to him by a giant named Pickleson) gets married, and leaves the poor tender-hearted glib tongued Cheap Jack to a sense (occasionally a very profound sense) of solitude and desolation. How exquisitely Doctor Marigold relates the story of little Sophy's death in his own arms, while plying his profession with a wild patter of mingled ten derness and absurdity—no one but Doctor Marigold himself can relate Listening to him as he here does relate it—one might say of him as he says of himself elsewhere, under other circumstances, ",You'd have laughed—or the rewerse—it's according to your disposition !" In these subtle blendings together of tears and laughter, of the exquisitely ludicrous and the exquisitely pathetic, Charles Dickens is assuredly without his peer in all literature ! And, here, in little Sophy's instance we have the latest specimen, and in itself one of the very loveliest of all the specimens of his exceptional powers in that way, as master—at his own will and simultaneously—of our tears and of our laughter. Proceeding, ostensibly, though the whole of this soliloquy, as it may be called, of the introduction to the Christmas Number of All the Year Round, does from the lips, or rather from the pen-point of a poor homely Cheap Jack—" a rough chap in a sleeved waistcoast"—we read it laughing, through our tears—we read it through our tears, laughing! What Pickleson the giant (called Rinaldo di Velasco) had to do with it all—" He was a languid young man, which I attribute to the distance be - tween his extremities—He had a little head and less in it, he had weak eyes and weak knees, and alto gether you couldn't look at him without feeling that there was greatly too much of him both for his joints and his mind "—How the giant gets tipped (and why), first with sixpence " (for he was kept as short as he was long)," afterwards with four-pound ten—Whence the title comes, the title of " Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions" How the happiest of happy incidents closes the whole record of the good Cheap Jack's wanderings over England, and that very comfortably, by the way, at a moment when he had just "knocked up" (and enjoyed) "a beefsteak pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in"— (" It's a pudding, says Dr. MarigOld himself, to put a man in good-humour with everything except the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat)" —Doctor Marigold, and Doctor Marigold alone, can tell as it all ought to be told. As for the half dozen inter mediate stories, here grouped together under the general heading of the " Doctor's. Prescriptions," in cluding amongst them one from Mr. Dickens him self —a weird, eltritch story about a Murdered Man's Ghost (To be Taken with a Grain of Salt)—we have no thought, honestly speaking, for any one of them. We have an ear for nothing but the Cheap Jack's patter. We have an eye for no one but that rough chap in the sleeved waistcoat, dear, delightful, supremely pathetic and laughter-moving Doctor Marigold. Meeting of Parliament. (From the Gazette of last night.) BY THE QUEEN.—A PROCLAMATION. VICTORIA, R.—Whereas our Parliament stands prorogued to Thursday, the 28th day of December instant, we, with the Advice of our Privy Council, do hereby publish and declare that the said Parlia ment shall be further prorogued on the said 28th day of December instant to Thursday, the Ist day of February next ; and we have given order to our Chancellor of that part of our United Kingdom called Great Britain to prepare a writ patent for proroguing the same accordingly; and we do hereby further, with the advice aforesaid, declare our royal will and pleasure that the said Parliament shall, on the said Thursday, the Ist day of February next, assemble and be holden for the despatch of divers urgent and important affairs ; and the lords spiri tual and temporal, and the knights, citizens, and burgesses, and the commissioners for shires and burghs of the House of Commons, are hereby re quired and commanded to give their attendance accordingly, at Westminster, on the said Thursday, the Ist day of February next. Given at our Court at Windsor, this fifth day of December, in the year of our Lord, 1865, and in the 29th year of our reign. God save the Queen. A Perfumed Royal Almanack for 1866 has just been issued from the establishment of Messrs. Napoleon Price and Company, A dainty little rose-coloured "an nual," it may be called—blooming hardily like a winter flower, but with leaves as fragrant as those of the flowers of spring, as the leaves of the violet or of the primrose. DEPARTURE OF QUEEN EIIMA.—Her Majesty Queen Emma, of the Sandwich Islands, attended by Major Hopkins, left Claridge's Hotel yesterday for the south of France, where her Majesty will pass the winter. DEMOLITION OF THE COLLEGE, DOCTORS'-COM MONS.—The necessary preliminary steps are now being taken by the Metropolitan Board of Works of grant ing compensation to the advocates, proctors, and other persons resident, or having a vested interest in the college, Doctors'-commons, previous to the early demolition of the ancient building, the site of which is required for the for mation of the contemplated new street from Blackfriars bridge to the Mansion-house. WILD ANIMALS IN INDIA.—We have before us a list of animals killed in these provinces during the first half of this year, with the amount paid for rewards. Total number of animals killed: Tigers, 359; leopards, 516; bears, 293; wolves, 99; hyaenas, 285; making in all 1,553, for which 23,561r5. Ba. have been expended. The number of animals killed is larger than the number killed during the preceding year, the rainy season of 1864, but is somewhat less than the result attained in the corre sponding half-year of 1864. Mr. Campbell hopes this decrease may be due to an actual decrease in the num ber of wild animals.—Central India Times, Oct. 28. ... _ EXTRAORDINARY LONGEVITY. The following rare illustrations of prolonged existence appeared in the obituary of the Times of yesterday, where the deaths of four ladies and three gentlemen are recorded whose united ages amounted to 602 years, giving an average of 86 years to each. On the 4th inst. the list was almost as remarkable, as the deaths of five ladies and one gentleman appeared whose ages amounted to 505 years, or an average of 84 years and two months to each. Taking the two con secutive days it would appear that the united ages of the nine ladies and four gentlemen amounted to I,lo7,affording an average of 85 years and rather more than one month to each. In most of the cases recorded the ladies have had a considerable advantage in years over the gentlemen, but not so on the present occasion, where the average ages of the latter appear to be 88 years and one month and the ladies 83 years and two months each. The Port Phillip and Colonial Gold Mining Company have received a telegram from Melbourne via Suez, in anticipation of the Australian mail, giving the results of the two last weeks of Septem ber and the two last weeks of October. During the six weeks of September, 6,884 tons of quartz were crushed, yielding 3,350 oz., 15 dwts. of gold, or an average of 9 dwts. 17 qrs. per ton. During the two weeks of October 2,280 tons of quartz were crushed, yielding 997 oz. 10 dwts. of gold, or an average of 8 dwts. 18 qrs. per ton. The remittance Ls £2,500. .... ...... -04 Cant ' 1 tirdat HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, Tuesday. The Queen, with her Royal Highness Princess Helena, walked and drove in the grounds this morning. His Serene Highness Prince Christian of Schles wig-Holstein, attended by the Gentlemen in Wait ing, went shooting. Her Majesty held a Council to-day at one o'clock, at which were present—Earl Granville, the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Clarendon, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, and the Right Hon. W. Glad stone. Mr. Chichester Fortescue was presented to the Queen at an audience, by Sir George Grey, on being appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland. Earl Granville, Lord Clarendon, and the Right Hon. W. Gladstone had audiences of the Queen. The Earl of Caithness and Lieutenant-Colonel Kingscote were the Lord and Groom in Waiting. Mr. Helps was Clerk of the Council. The Earl of Caithness and Lieutenant-Colonel Kingscote have succeeded Lord Methuen and the Hon. Mortimer Sackville West as Lord and Groom in Waiting. -4 , The Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Lord Suffield. GUNTON PARK, Tuesday. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales arrived here yesterday afternoon about four o'clock, having posted from Dereham to Gun ton via Reepham and Aylsham, a distance of about 24 miles. Their royal highnesses were accompanied by the Earl of Dunmore, Lord and Lady Royston, Lord Suffield, and the Hon. Harbord Harbord ; the Marchioness of Carmarthen and Lieut.-Colonel Keppel were in attendance on their royal highnesses. From East Dereham to Gunton was one continued series of ovations. The prince had vacated his seat in the open carriage and joined Lord Suffield on the box of the break, whence his lordship managed his four in hand. The princess and the ladies of the party followed in an open carriage. The first stay was at Reepham, a very pretty little town, about equi-distant between Dereham and Gunton, and it had been arranged to change horses at the King's Arms. Triumphal arches, flags, , and decorations there were in great profusion, and the streets were thronged with spectators. In front of the King's Arms the 6th Norfolk, or Aylsham Volunteers, were drawn up under the command of Adjutant Toke and Captain Scott, and as the royal cortege entered the town and the crowd shouted lustily, the volunteers presented arms and the band played the National Anthem. Whilst the horses were being changed their royal highnesses partook of some refreshment, and the band played " God bless the Prince of Wales." After a stay of about 10 or 15 minutes the royal travellers proceeded through several smiling villages, followed every where by the good wishes of the yeomanry and peasantry, who mustered all along the country side. At Aylsham, the- last town to be passed through, hearty and loyal efforts had been put forth to give their royal highnesses a fitting reception. The decorations throughout the town were very good, and the mottoes thoroughly in character. The tenantry and local yeomanry, by the express wish of Lord Suffield, rode out to meet the cortege, and had got as far as Alby Horse Shoes, where they lined each side of the road for their royal high nesses to pass through, afterwards bringing up the rear and acting as an escort. A great number of carriages of every description, heavily freighted with human beings, had also assembled from Cromer, Holt, North Walsham, and the neighbourhood ; and, tired as by this time their royal highnemes must have been with their long-continued bowing, they charmed everybody with the apparent pleasure with which they returned the greetings of the populace. More triumphal arches.; and, finally, they had en tered this magnificent park, in which but a very select few were admitted ; and thus terminated a journey marked by the most loyal and enthusiastic conduct. Fortunately the weather, which in the morning - was wet and uncomfortable, cleared, and was very bright and beautiful the whole of the way. The company staying at the hall have been arriv ing all day, and include the following :—The Prince and Princess of Wales, Lieut.-Col. Keppel, Equerry in Waiting ; the Marchioness of Carmarthen, Lady in Waiting ; the Earl and Countess of Leicester, the Earl and Countess Spencer, the Earl of Dun more, Lord and Lady Rendlesham, Lord and Lady AlfredPaget, Lord and Lady Royston, Lord Berke ley Paget, &c. During dinner last evening the band of the East Norfolk Militia performed a selection of airs. It is understood that the royal and distinguished sportsmen staying with Lord Suffield will commence shooting this morning in the park, which is about 1,000 acres in extent, and which has been reserved for two years, in order to afford some splendid battue shooting on this occasion. A grand ball takes place this evening, and to provide accommodation for those invited, the Hotel de Paris and other sleep ing accommodation at Cromer has been secured by Lord Suffield. The Prince of Wales will have one or two more days in the Gunton preserves, and probably have a " day out" with Lord Hastings's hounds, and will leave on Friday or Saturday, his Royal Highness having promised to honour Lord Sondes by lunching with him at Elmham, from which station his Royal Highness will proceed to Sandringham by special train. O- Marriage of the Princess Helena. (From the Gazette of last night) At the Court of Windsor, the sth day of Decem ber, 1865, present—the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased to declare her consent to a contract of matrimony between her Royal Highness the Princess Helena Augusta Victoria and his Serene Highness Prince Frederic Christian Charles Augus tus of Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Augusten burg ; which consent her Majesty has also caused to be signified under the Great Seal. --0-- THE PRINCESS LOUISE.—Her Royal Highness the Princess Louise and suite honoured the performance of " Rip Van Winkle," at the Adelphi Theatre, with their presence last night. Her Royal Highness returned to Windsor by special train at 10.30 p.m. The train wag fitted with the electric system of communication between passengers and guards. His Excellency the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer have arrived at their residence in Arlington street, from their seat near Windsor. The Marquis of Bowmont has returned to the Clarendon Hotel. The Marquis d'Andigne has returned to the Clarendon Hotel from Do wnham Hall. The Earl and Countess of Dudley have arrived at Dudley House, Park-lane, from Paris. In a day or two they leave London for Witley Court, Worcestershire. The Earl and Countess of Stamford and War rington's shooting party assembled at Enville Hall, Staf fordshire, one of the family residences, and not at Greville Hall, as stated yesterday in error. Viscount Hill is entertaining a shooting party at his seat, Hawkstone Park, Salop. Lord Brabazon has arrived in town from the Earl and Countess of Meath's seat in the county Wicklow , Ireland. The Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., the newly-appointed Secretary for Ireland, will leave town on, Saturday, accompanied by Frances Countess Waldegraf e r for Dublin, to enter upon his official duties. The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P., expected to arrive from Ireland on Saturday next. Lady Emily Peel is in town. THE JAMAICA INSURRECTION.--A public meet ing was held at Brighton on Monday night to memorialiS6 the Government to institute a prompt inquiry as to the insurrection in Jamaica, and its suppression. The incra °- rial calling for investigation was unanimously adopted. Mr. White, Mr. Coningham, and Professor Fawcett were present, and addressed the meeting ; and letters of apologi were road from Mr. Dodson and Lord E. Cavendish, the county members. Mr. White freely expressed his iudig' nation at Governor Eyre's proceedings as U trotted .1 himself. Professor Fawcett desired to sa y nothing to coto w mit himself on a matter whereon he would be called ou deal judicially in the House of Commons, but he 010110 14 there should be an immediate and searching iliitlirY' 'AYE. Cash. RAIL' Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern Western Eastern Sardinian . Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona 157 50 Roman ... - - ... 426 25 - - ... 165 -- - - ... 206 25 SPAIN. 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