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Contributions are received by the London and country bankers ; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. (Opera Company, Limited.) THIS EVENING (Thursday). Mr. Charles Dcfl'eill's new opera, in one act, CHRISTMAS I'VE. Madame F. Lancia, Madame E. litywood; Mr. A. Cook. and Mr. D. Miranda. Conductor, Mr. Altrel Mellon. Atter which, ht 8, the gr?nd comic, spectacular, and ope ratic Chris mas Pan'oiliime, entitled A LAD uIN i TILE WO N;DERFUI. LAMP; or, Harlequin and the Flying Palau. (ziee ether advertisements). Commence at 7 o'clock. TII EAT RE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE__ Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, the Comedy of THE JEALOUS WIFE. Mr. Phelps, Mrs. Herman n Vezin, Atter which, the Pantomime, LITTLE KING PIPPIN; or, Harlequin Fortunatus and the Magic Purse and Wishing Cap. Messrs. G. Belmore, 11. Drayton, G. Weston. Master Percy Itoselli ; Misses liazlewood, A. 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As time goes on, and more facts are collected about the " martyr GORDON," we have more and more cause to - wonder at the extravagant asser tions that were made at the outset concerning nim. Never was there a more manifest determi nation to make the worse appear the better cause than throughout this Jamaica business, but the time draws near when the mask will be taken from those who have contrived to deceive many with false appearances. A gentleman, who was lately a member of the Legislative Council of Ja maica, has slated that GORDON was a man of m os t violent temper, always against the authorities} and as for the state ment p ut fort h so glibly, that there was not a title of evidence to convict him, he read a letter which showed that he was deeply implicated in the rebellion. Before the outbreak GORDON had been trying to purchase not only arms and ammunition, but also a war vessel used by the Confederates as a blockade runner. It is said that the captain of the Con federate vessel is about to start for Jamaica, in order to give evidence before the Commission, so that in all probability we shall soon hear enough, and more than enough, to prove that GORDON'S guilt was fully proved. Mr. BOWERBANK'S narra tive of the late disturbances in Jamaica is very in teresting, and it is of importance to dwell upon all the authentic details that reach us, for even now we may as well realise the state of matters so far as we can. He states that the state of feeling in Kings town was dreadful in its anxiety just before and after the arrest of GORDON. Each hour brought news from the disturbed districts and different parts to show that there was great disaffection among the people, and that seditious language was used. Mr. BOWERBANK declares that there were " distinct evidences of organisation," large bodies of men went in particular directions, and added greatly to their number by swearing in the people as they went along, which, of course, is a convincing proof that there existed a determination and a pre-arrangement among them. The various cruelties of the "awful scenes" at Morant Bay, on that fatal Wednesday (Oct. 11) are not given in full here, but quite enough is men tioned to prove their atrocity and horror. Some white people from their places of concealment heard, if they could not see, and their accounts are de plorable. Thus one person remonstrates with an other for having assisted to murder PRICE—" We were ordered not to kill black people ;" and the answer was, " Neber mind; though him got black skin, him got white heart." Again, when Dr. MAJOR was saved as being a doctor, a woman said, " Doctor or no, kill him : my orders is to kill every white man." It is worthy of notice that Mr. BOWERBANK states, that from all he heard from eye witnesses, he believes that the " printed accounts" of the scenes which were beheld by those who landed from the Wolverine are not exaggerated. There was a method in the madness of the rebels, which shows that they were more intent upon the future than the present in an honest rebellion, if the term is admissible, the excitement and enthu siasm of the many carrying away those concerned in it, and they forego future gain for the gratification of present revenge, and the adjustment of wrongs, real or imaginary. In Jamaica we find that the rebels spared the houses, crops, and living :stock on the estates in recent instances, which they would not have done had they been suddenly wound up to fury by the ill-treatment they received from the rebels. It was no ebullition of the moment, but, on the contrary, a deep-laid scheme, and a carefully concocted plan, and had not the outbreak been a little premature, no doubt all the skill and promptitude of the authorities could not have preserved the inhabitants. The black women were the worst in mutilating the dead and ill-treat ing the living, but Mr. BOWERBANK positively contradicts the report that women were flogged with the sanction of the chief authorities. Hearing that one magistrate had allowed such a thing to take place, Governor EYRE at once removed him from the commission of the peace. Brigadier- General NELSON likewise counter-ordered the sentence of a court-martial at Morant Bay to the same effect, so that here or elsewhere the most unfavourable assertions are shown to have been the most untrue. The Rev. Mr. RAD CLIFFE, in a letter to the Times of to-day, reiterates the statement he made some time ago as to the occasional " threats" used in the House of Assembly by Mr. GORDON, and he furnishes many proofs of the validity of his remarks. He states that his "documentary evidence" for the House of Assembly is such that, in giving extracts, his diffi culty is selection, and not want of matter; and that the phrase of " driving the whites into the sea" has become " crystallised into a really and compen dious metaphor, to express all threatening language as to the whites, either inside or outside the House." Many extracts are furnished which are most conclusive as to the dangerous state of feeling which existed for some time past in Jamaica. Mr. OSBORNE said in 1858 that the government of that country would be left to the black and brown men in twenty years' time. Mr. SPEAKER was fighting with a shadow ; for it is in the course of GOD'S providence that the change to which I allude should occur, and there is no alter ing it. GOD has destined that the wrongs of Africa shall be vindicated in those lands." Some of Mr. GORDON'S speeches are quoted to prove how violent he was; and the writer truly states that if his remarks are not treason, it is difficult to know what treason able language is. He said on one occasion that if such a member provoked him to the use of " strong language, he would tell him that if the Governor continued his present course we will have a rebel lion, an insurrection, and sword bayonets in this country, and he will be pelted and hooted, because the people are not going to consent to the tyrannical conduct of the Governor." And again, he said, " Therefore, per se," as the hon. member states, " the people would be quite right to break into an open rebellion." All these sentences are significant enough, and have a deep and deadly meaning in them. It is never a very gracious or popular task to impose taxes ; whether direct or indirect there are sure to be plenty of persons on whom the new imports will press heavily, and who naturally enough are ready with arguments in favour of the transfer of the burden to other people's shoulders. Still, if a Government is to be carried out at all, and especially such a costly and elaborate Govern ment as ours, the national exchequer must be re cruited by means of the useful though unpopular agency of the tax-gatherer. Mr. GLADSTONE, though always one of the most remorseless of creditors so far as Schedule D is concerned, has lately won golden opinions from the tax-payers by his reduction of the tea and sugar duties, and of the fire insurance duty, although for the latter he deserves little credit. The agitation for the repeal of the malt tax threatens, however, to disturb his equanimity, and unless he is prepared to make some concession on this point he will find his Budget for 1866 a trouble some matter. The arguments in favour of the total abolition of this tax have been marshalled in for midable array by Mr. WILLIAM RAY SMEE, F.S.A., in a pamphlet* to which we have already referred, and which certainly makes out a strong case, founded not so much on the claims of the producer as on those of the consumer. According to Mr. SMEE'S care fully compiled statistics there is a very large sum of money wasted between the malt grower and the beer drinker, and the actual malt tax of £1 Is. Bd. per quarter is raised by the vices engrained in the system to an actual cost of £3 10s. Bd. per quarter. Taking the average price of barley and hops, the charges for making malt and for brewing, he finds that the cost of the liquid extracted from a quarter of malt is about £2 Bs., which quantity of malt is never brewed into less than 90 gallons of ale, and always into more by the great brewers ; and gene rally into 144 gallons of porter—the one costing lid. per quart, and the other ld. Thinking that many persons will hold it incredible " that the ale costing 11d. per quart and the porter Id. should be usually sold at 6d. and 4d., Mr. SMEE takes the trouble of referring to the Re port of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, by which it appears that " the quantity of malt con sumed in the brewing of each barrel of beer is de termined to within less than one-fifth part of a bushel;" and the result of this test proves that one quarter of malt was made into 121 gallons,of liquid; this, moreover, for export beer, which is usually of a * The Malt Tax. By William Ray S►n;e, Esq, , F.S.A. gann, Nephews, Cornhill dINC THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 1, 1866. better quality than that brewed for home consump tion. As for the hops, the only remaining ingre dient, our rigorous censor finds that the quantity brewed with a quarter of malt costs, on a fair aver age, 6s. Bd. So that the conclusion which he arrives at on the authority of the Excise is that " the malt duty being 2d. the gallon, the barley, malting, brewing, &c., 4d. the gallon, and assuming there were no duty upon malt and nothing to pay for licences, then the cost price of all sold retail at 6d. the quart would be sd. the gallon, or lid. per quart." A little further on he puts the case still more strongly and suc cinctly. " The Government obtain from this sixpenny ale id. tax, and by the system adopted the price is augmented 4d. ; that which otherwise would be 2d., on being taxed id. is not raised to 2d., but to 6d." Certainly if these figures are actually founded on existing facts, their " inexorable logic" points strongly against the continuance of the malt tax in its present form. Every one knows that between the brewer and the licensed victualler, and the builder, and the landlord, more than a fair trade profit has to be made out of beer sold retail. No sooner, says Mr. SMEE, is a house completed and a licence obtained, than the builder at once largely augments the value. The capitalist buying it charges more rent than if it were used for any other trade. The licence com mands a premium, so that the licensed victuallers themselves declare that they have sunk sums vary ing from £5OO to £lO,OOO, to the enormous aggre gate of £50,000,000. Then thebrewer, whose capital is locked up in the purchase of public houses, charges high to get remunerating profits, and the publican who does not find the ld. a quart profit which he gets sufficiently rapid to repay him for the money sunk, takes to the easy and comfortable method of increasing his revenue by adding " saccharine matter, water, and salt." It is well if nothing less innocent forms part of the questionable beverage. The great perplexity of the question still re mains to be considered, and it is one which the Chancellor of the Exchequer is not likely to let us forget. The malt tax brings in about six mil lions a year to the national exchequer, and how ever attractive the total removal of the impost may appear, it would not be very easy to sur render that amount. Mr. S3IEE suggests as a remedy that the duty should be levied not on the malt, but on the liquid, the same as in France, by which means " the adulterated beer and malt made from improper materials will be taxed the same as the genuine, and be made to pay the duty it now altogether escapes." This tax is one halfpenny per gallon. We would have the retailer pay once a month on the quantity of beer he has sold during the four weeks, when " the ale will be 2id. the quart instead of 6d., and the porter 2d. instead of 4d., and the revenue will be nearly the same as at present." how far this plan would work, and whether it would answer the purpose, we leave our financiers to consider; but, at any rate, something might be done by the reduc tion of the malt tax, say one-third. The heavy losses of the agriculturists during the past year give them a claim on the Chancellor of the Exchequer's consideration which he is not likely to be allowed to overlook ; and if it is once generally believed that other interests are affected by the tax there will be no rest until a chang, , e is made. The great difficulty is to obtain some security that the profit derived from the lightening of the tax will not find its way into the pockets of the landowner, the brewer, and the licensed victualler. If the rights of the question were more widely understood there would be less fear of fraud and imposition, and Mr. SMEE has done good service in collecting facts and figures which, so long as they remain undisproved, are unanswerable arguments. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Wednesday Evening. The Monitcur to-day publishes some of the long despatches between France and the United States upon the subject of Mexico, but I do not see in them any important fact which is not already known. The following is all that the ilioniteur contains in regard to Spain. In the provinces of Barcelona and Tarragona the insurgents have almost entirely disappeared. There was no longer any doubt in Catalonia that in a few days the country will be entirely tranquil. The Siècle says, in reference to the most recent of these despatches :—" The French Government is actuated by the same sympathies as the Government of the United States. It establishes a distinction I between the right of war which it has adopted, and the principle of intervention, for which it professes the same doctrine as the United States. \% ithout ambition, without any other thought than that of protecting French interests, France will recall the -e_veditionary corps as soon as it can with dignity for herself and safety for the people." The yellow book, containing the documents in question, con sisis of 226 pages. The documents amount to 120. A woman of 32 years, named Jeanne Leveque, has been tried before the Court of Assize, at Nantez, for the murder and mutilation of a male child to which she gave birth. It was proved that she boiled the body in some soap suds, and then cut it into small pieces, thrusting them into a barrel of vinegar. She admitted the fact of having given birth to the child, and, indeed, indicated the spot where the mutilated remains were found. She, however, persisted that the child was dead when born. Various experiments were made with the remains by medical men with the view, if possible, to ascertain whether the child had ever breathed. The jury found the prisoner guilty, but with " ex tenuating circumstances," and she was sentenced to hard labour for 20 years. I cannot ascertain' from the evidence one single extenuating circum stance, but French juries are very clever in dis covering them. Perhaps one extenuating circum stance was that the woman endeavoured to preserve at least a portion of the child by putting it into vinegar. M. L. Reveliene, formerly a deputy for the Loire Inferieure, and one of the editors of the Univers, has just died at Paris in his 91st year. A young actress, Blanche S _ , has commit ted suicide, not exactly for love, but for money, at least that was her explanation, for she left upon the table a piece of paper on which was written, " I poison myself because my lover cannot keep me any longer." She was the mistress of a gentleman who told her the other day that in consequence of reverses he could not afford to give her so much as he had done. Blanche passed Sunday night with her lover, and partook of supper, as it is stated, with a very good appetite, but in the course of the night he was awoke by her groans, when she soon expired. She had swallowed a large dose of mercury (corrosive sublimate), and died in great agony. While the doctor who was called in was attending to his patient the gentleman in flicted a serious wound upon himself with a knife which was on the supper-table. In addition to the blue and yellow books, two other important documents have been presented to the Chamber of Deputies--the project of law for the supplementary credits of 1866. These docu ments were—the ordinary budget, 8,531,183 f. ; extraordinary budget, 76,276,005 f. It is stated that the iron-clad frigate the Huescard, built in England for the Peruvian Government, and which recently sailed from Plymouth for Brest, is to be detained in the latter port until the differences between Spain and Peru are settled, of which there now appears to be some prospect. There were some incidents in the career of the late Prefect of Police (Gisquet) which I think will interest your readers. He was born of poor and obscure parents at Vezin, in the department of Moselle, in 1792. His father was a Custom-house officer. At the - age of sixteen M. Gisquet entered the well-known house of the Brothers Perrier as a clerk, and soon obtained the entire confidence-of the head of the firm, M. Casimir Perrier. Casimir Per rier became a Minister, and was so esteemed in France that his funeral, in 1832, was the most gor geous and imposing ceremony of modern times. Gisquet, from a poor banker's clerk, at a salary of £24 a year, became himself an influential banker, and on the 14th October, 1831, was appointed Pre fect of Police under Louis Philippe. He was then 39. Gisquet's administration of the Police Depart ment was marked by despotism, and the most ar bitrary regulations. There were police spies every where. Perhaps the system he adopted was so odious in the eyes of the Parisians that his measures had the basis of that unpopularity which ultimately drove Louis Philippe from the Throne. It is only just to say, however, that his agents were very clever in detecting crime. When the great robbery of gold and silver medals and other valuables took place at the Royal Library in 1831 he soon discovered the thieves. The principal one was a man named Fossard, an escaped convict. One of his accomplices was an elegant and fashionable lady, who lived in great style upon the produce of stolen property. A great quantity of the gold and silver medals was melted into ingots and the rest were thrown into the Seine. Under the immediate superintendence of M. Gisquet they were fished up near the Pont de la Tourrelle. They comprised some valuable numismatics, including the seal of Louis XI., the silver shield of Hannibal, and the medals of Antiochus. M. Gisquet took very severe measures against the St. Simonians, and forcibly dispersed a meeting, at which their head, the father Enfanten, presided. The father soon after left France for the East with a largo number of followers. M. de Chateaubriand was imprisoned by order of M. Gisquet in consequence of his parti cipation in the well-known affair of the Duchess de Berri. During his administration an impostor who pretended to be a Dauphin of France, was arrested. He called himself Baron de Richemont, but his real name was Louis Hector Hebert. Be fore the Court of Assize Hebert persisted that he was Louis XVII., and said that he escaped from the Temple, not on a wooden horse like that at the siege of Troy, but on a horse made of pasteboard. Hebert was sentenced to be imprisoned for 12 years. In this case Gisquet was not so fortunate as usual, for Hebert contrived to escape. Gisquet was Prefect of Police at the time of Fieschi and the infernal machine. Fieschi had a great desire to have a pri vate interview with the Prefect, and while in prison wrote him a letter begging the Prefect to come and pay him a visit, humorously remarking that M. Gisquet would be sure to find him at home. So determined was M. Gisquet to put down dan gerous allusions everywhere that he waged eternal war against the theatres. The most harmless verse or dialogue was suppressed under a threat of having the theatre closed. Even the harmless mummery of the procession of the fat ox on Shrove Tuesday was alarming to M. Gisquet's eyes, and he tried, but unsuccessfully, to induce Louis Philippe to suppress it. It is only justice to say that M. Gisquet's administration was not all of a mischievous tendency. He it was who arranged the omnibus system in Paris. I may remark that this system is most admirably arranged at the pre sent time. It is remarkable for cheapness, speed, and regularity. As an instance, I may mention some of the omnibuses which go beyond the barriers. The charge is regulated by distance from station to station. By what are called the American omnibuses you may go for more than a mile outside for one sous, and upwards of three miles for three sous. Under M. Gisquet's superintendence search was made among the records of crime, and he found that in 1840 the number of persons whose names appeared in the archives of those accused was no less than 500,000. Prefect of Police is comparatively a modern title. Forinerly the Police Administration of the capital was confided to what were called Prevots de Paris and to the Lieutenants Criminals. Among the names most known as Prefects of Police are those of Cochon, under the Directory ; Fouch6, under the Consulate, the Empire, and during the Hundred Days; Decares, Duke of Gluksberg, during the early years of the second Restoration. Under the Government of July (the Revolution), the Prefects were Mangin, Guisquet, and Delessant. Caussi diere and Ducoux, in 1848, and Pietri under the second Empire. The present Prefect of Police is M. Boittelle, formerly a cavalry officer. A Liverpool Packet Ship Wrecked in Mid-Ocean. --+- RESCUE OF THREE HUNDRED PERSONS. (From the Boston Advertise r of Jan. 17.) On Sunday forenoon, intelligence arrived in this city that a wrecked company of over 300 souls, rescued from a sinking ship in mid-ocean, had arrived in the lower har bour in a condition which required the immediate attention of a benevolent community. '1 ho facts,which were speedily developed, make a story of distress and privation which it is seldom our lot to record. The three-decked ship Gratitude, formerly the John J. Boyd, a vess e l o f 1 , 310 t ons , rating A. I ,built in New York in 1855, and hailing from Liverpool, sailed from the last named port on the 18th of November last for New York, under command of Captain 111`Stother, with a crew of 33 men and 275 p assengers , m ostly English, Irish, and Scotch emigrants. The ship had not been many days at sea before the weather became tempestuous, and several violent gales succeeded one another in quick succession, badly straining the vessel, injuring her spars and rigging, and stripping her of the greater part of her canvas. On Christmas-day a serious leakage was added to the other misfortunes of the voyage, and it became necessary for the passengers to aid the crow in working the six pumps belonging to the ship, the whole male adult company on board being divided into reliefs of four hours each, and after performing their allotted tasks, lying down in wet garments to a fitful and unsatis fying rest, to be roused again when their appointed turn came round. Notwithstanding all exertion; the leak gained slowly but steadily, rendering it necessary to occasionally lighten the ship by throwing over a portion of the cargo, which consisted of lead, tin, and spelter. The ship was thus relieved of between 300 and 400 tons up to Jan. 1. On New Year's-day, about noon, in lat. 41.30, long. 33, when hope had nearly deserted the worn and wearied com pany, a sail was descried in the distance. It proved to be the barque Fredonia, of 431 tons burthen, built in Boston in 1853, running under a British flag, but still owned in Boston, commanded by Capt. Edmund Burke, and on her passage to Boston from Fayal, which port she left Decem ber 13. Captain Burke, on discovering that the Gratitude was in distress, approached her, and passing under her stern spoke the ship, learning her condition, and deter mined to lie near enough to render her assistance. The leak continuing to gain, and it becoming apparent that the efforts of her wretched and nearly worn-out passen gers and crew could not long keep her above water, Capt. Burke began to make preparations for taking them on board his own vessel, for this object throwing overboard his cargo of oil, between decks. The process of transferring, which was effected by means of small boats, began at nine a.m. on the 3d inst., and was loss of a single life. The women an d children were first finished about five p.m., being accomplished without the taken from the wreck, Captain M'Stother standing with a loaded pistol to secure them the first chance of rescue. The wrecked people had but little opportunity to save their property, and most of them escaped with no clothing but what they worn. A few barrels of bread were also taken from the Gratitude. When the ship was abandoned she had three feet three inches of water in her hold. There bad previously been four deaths on the passage. One seaman, named William Kavanaugh, was instantly killed by falling from the lower foretopsktil yard. Captain Burke, after performing his duty so nobly, found that his supply of food and water was very scanty for the large number of persons huddled on board his vessel, and it became necessary to put them on an allowance of half a pint of water and one biscuit per day, with the addition of a few oranges, which formed a part of the Fredonia's cargo. The condition of the wretched emigrants, thus placed on short rations and unavoidably crowded together, beggars description. The constant restlessness, caused by discom fort, and the crying of the children, left little opportunity for sleep, and the women and children grew feebler daily, while the less hardy of the men became rapidly emaciated. Most of the passengers, however, bore their sufferings with fortitude and anxiously awaited their arrival in port. The Fredonia arrived in our lower harbour early on Sun day morning. Upon the arrival of the barque at the wharf the passengers and crow were immediately landed. It was a pitiable sight to behold them as they emerged from their crowded quarters, weak, emaciated, and thinly clad, many of them—men, women, and children—barefooted. Some had not strength to walk up the plank to the wharf. An infant died in its mother's arms as she was leaving the vessel. The city government and the benevolent people of Boston provided every necessary comfort for the suf ferers. LA TEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) SPAIN. THE SPANISH PASSIVE DEBT. MADRID, JAN. 31. The usual monthly auction for the Sinking Fund of the Passive Debt took place to-day. The prices fixed by the Government were for the first class interior, 31.80, and for the second interior, 17.75. Private tenders were made from 31.25 to 32 for the first, and from 17.16 to 18 for the second interior. No offers were made for the exterior. MADRID, JAN. 31 (Evening). In to-day's sitting of the Senate General Concha proposed that only two Senators should be allowed to speak on the address to the Queen, namely, one for and the other against it. BAYONNE, FEB. 1. Advices received here from Madrid to the 30th ult. state that the Ministry had presented a bill sub jecting the press and political association to very stringent regulations. Public opinion greatly blames the Ministry, as hopes were entertained that tranquillity being en tirely restored, they would first of all introduce the measures necessary for the re-establishment of pub lic credit. PORTUGAL. LISBON, JAN. 30. General Prim has arrived here, and is the guest of the Marquis of Niza. The Cortes have approved the new Press Laws. CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAIL. MALTA, JAN. 31. The Syria, from Marseilles on the 28th inst., ar rived here yesterday at 6 p.m., and left to-day ai noon for Alexandria. The Ripon, from Southampton on the 20th inst., arrived to-day at noon, and will leave at 6 p.m. for Alexandria. JAMAICA. We have been favoured with the following extracts from letters from gentlemen in high posi tion in the island. One gentleman of great influence, writing from Kingston on the 9th January, thus states : " You will have learned with surprise the course which events have taken with respect to Jamaica in consequence of the pressure brought to bear on the GOvernment by the Baptist and other bodies in England. The effect of Mr. Eyre's temporary sus pension has been very bad indeed upon the black people of the lower classes. They have taken it for granted that the suppression of riot by military force is illegal, and they are congratulating them selves that Mr. Eyre, and all who acted under him, will meet with speedy punishment for what they have done. The Governor has very recently been furnished with very strong evidence, obtained in St. Thomas-in-the-East, to prove the complicity of Gordon in the acts of Paul Bogle and the other rebel leaders. Gordon's character does not cer tainly stand very high in the estimation of the black people of St. Thomas-in-the-East, although he was very popular on account of his arrogating to him self the office of redressing their grievances." Another gentleman, filling a public appointment, also thus writes from Kingston : " You must have been astonished at the aspect' Jamaica affairs have assumed in England. Al parties think that Mr. Eyre has been badly used. " The negroes think they have already got a great triumph, and are talking very largely, but on the whole everything is quiet." Another gentleman, one of the highest function aries in the island, alluding to the story of Marshall, gives the following version of it : " Gordon Ramsay was placed with three men to guard the prisoners brought in to Morant Bay. These were all the men who could be spared, and they had charge of near 100 prisoners under tents. There was the greatest difficulty, and it required the greatest difficulty to prevent mutiny. An at tempt was made by the prisoners to escape, and one was shot in the attempt. Marshall, who was to be tried for murder, was flogged (12 lashes) for in subordination and rebellious threats and conduct, and on being let down he shook his fist at Ramsay, and threatened to do for him. He knew that the evidence against him would h ang him, and he cared not what he did. Allowing him to go among the other prisoners would have caused immediate in surrection and, slaughter of all within reach. It then depended on Ramsay to prevent this ; and under the circumstances, and where the escape of these murderers—for some exertion would have set them free—would have led to such consequences, Ramsay did right, and but his duty, by ordering him then and there to be hung." FRANCE, BOURSE, Jan. 31.—Two o'clock.—The reponse des primes (option) has taken place to-day at the following rates—viz., 68f. 70c. for Three per Cents., 62f. for Italian Fives, 865 f. for Credit Mobilier Shares, and 432 f. 50c. for Spanish Mobiliers. Since the above operation the market has become weak, and quotations have generally receded. Italian Stock has fallen 25c., and is now offered at 61f. 90c. The shares of the Comptoir d'Escompte likewise exhibit considerable weakness at a loss of 12f. 50c., the quotation now being 9701. Three per Cents., on the other hand, show an advance of 10c., at 68f. 67/c. Credit Mobilier Shares show a decline of 7f. 50c. on yesterday's final quotation, and are now being done at 855 f. The deport has now reached 145 f. Discounts were announced yester day on 2,600 of these shares ; and in the course of the afternoon two important notices were issued by the Syndical Chamber of the Agents-de-Change_ one compelling all sellers for the next term who had not been " discounted " by the 7th Feb. to furnish their purchasers at the liquidation with the new shares appertaining to the old ones sold ; the other authorising the negotiation of Mobilier Shares, on Account, with the receipt of subscription to the new Stock attached, until the 2d of March inclusively. From to-day, therefore, these shares will be deno minated in the official list as '• Actions de Credit , Mobiliers rciunies." Both telegrams from London announce a fall of in Consols—making for the day a reduction of I per cent. Three o'clock—The weakness of the market increased towards the close. The last quotations were as follows: 4j per Cents 9B Do. end month — 3 per Cent 5....,,,,, 68 62 i Do. end month 6B 57f Credit Mobilier Do. end month Bank Shares 3725 Credit Fonder 1310 Italian Loan 62 Do. end month 6l 80 Roman 69 Ottoman Fives 4O Mexican Loan 46 75 Do. Bonds 325 Russian Austrian Spanish Threes HOme Debt Deferred TI 4rr,WAYB. Cash. Acut. 852 50 Orleans Northern — ... 1112 50 Lyons and Mediterranean 855 Southern - - 545 Western ... 558 75 Eastern —.— ... 531 25 Sardinian Austrian Lombard — - ... 411 25 North of Spai n — ... 180 Saragossa 225 Ditto to Barcelo na lOO Roman THE SUSPECTED MURDER OF A POLICEMAN IN DRURY-LANE._The coroner's inquest concerning the death of a policeman named Fitzgerald, who, while taking a man named John Daly to the police station, was thrown down by his prisoner and two companions, named Cahill and Curtis, and so injured that he afterwards died, was concluded yesterday. Evidence was given as to the presumed intent of Daly and his companions, and to esta blish the fact as to whether the occurrence was a result of some settled purpose or an accident happening in conse quence of the rescue of Daly, which was effected thereby. The jury, after a long deliberation, found a verdict of man slaughter against John Daly, who was committed to New gate upon the coroner's warrant. MAGAZINE-DAY. - - BLACKWOOD.—" What will the Government do ?" is the title of the first article met with, and it enters fully into the difficulties of the situation in which the Government find themselves. Indeed the review of affairs is anything but encouraging. It is truly said of Lord Palmerston that, notwithstanding the excellence of his judgment on many points, more than once there came between him and real greatness that live of power, that fear of breaking up a ricketty Administration which more or less kept him in leading-strings throughout the whole period of his Premiership. The "Jamaica Im broglio," as it is aptly termed, is last referred to, and the question is spoken of in a fitting manner. It is stated em phatically that Parliament must call the Ministers to ac count for their extraordinary and inconsistent conduct. Why, for instance, did Mr. Cardwell and Lord de Grey ex press themselves in terms of general approval to Governor Eyre concerning the measures for the suppression of negro rebellion, and then turn round upon him after the fashion they did. The Anti-slavery Association and the Dissent ing philanthropists of Exeter-hall bearded Earl Russell and Mr. Cardwell ; and instead of meeting them, as they ought, the Premier "truckled" to them. How far better would it have been, as is here suggested, for them to have replied that they " were responsible to Parliament for their actions, and not to knots of individuals." A very proper line of conduct is here traced out for the Government as the one they should have pursued, and well would it have been for them had they done so. In the first place, they should have sent to Governor Eyre to say that they would send fit persons to collect evidence, and had the result been favourable to have bestowed marks of the Queen's appro bation upon all whom the Governor recommended as well as upon himself. Had it been adverse it would then have been time enough to have suspended Mr. Eyre. As it is, how can there be two opinions among unprejudiced and competent persons, it is asked, "of the gross injustice of first condemning Governor Eyre by suspending him and then calling for evidence to justify his condemnation ?" The injury thus inflicted upon Mr. Eyre is ably commented upon, and also the contemptible conduct of those in office, who, " with a view to obtain a little worthless popularity, cover him with disgrace, and positively hound on his enemies to demand his life." We cordially agree also with all that is here said concerning the incalculable injury which this act of "political baseness" will inflict upon all men who fill, or may fill, offices under the Crown like that from which Mr. Eyre is now removed. How can we look for the display of that promptness or the exhibition of that decision which have saved Jamaica from a disastrous re bellion, now that the colonial authorities will learn that they are liable to persecution from the very men they are trying to save. We can easily imagine the loss of property-, the sacrifice of life, and the subversion of authority that will ensue before the mandates of the Colonial and War Offices have authorised governors of colonies and commanding officers of troops to act with vigour. The difference of conduct displayed by Lord Palmerston is appropriately alluded to hero. On one occa sion, in particular, when allusion was made to the course pursued by Sir John Bowring in China, the noble lord declared that " it is not enough to support the Minister of the Crown, when we are satisfied that he is right. Even if we believe that he took an unwise course, we will not desert him so long as we are satisfied that he acted honestly and with a conscientious desire to do his duty to his coun try. The moment your policy takes a different direction you cease to deserve the confidence of honourable men. You may get people to serve you, and you doubtless will, but they will not be high-minded English gentlemen, such as it is necessary to have had at the head of affairs in the great colonies and dependencies of this country." This excellent article deserves to be studied, more especially as relates to its concluding passages on Jamaica, in which it has shown the foolishness of the Ministers, and will in all probability shortly prove a stumbling-block to arrest their future course of official life altogether. "Sir Brooke Fosbrooke " is continued at some length, and we find that Trafford pays the penalty of his yielding to Colonel Senell's proposal by meeting with a severe accident. Young Tom Lendrick is ill with fever in Sardinia, and poor, Lucy is altogether in great straits. "Memoirs of the Confederate War for Independence" are continued in the same strain of interesting summary. "A Visit to the Big Trees" is a very entertaining little sketch, and it in creases our ideas of the wonders of nature to read of these mighty and magnificent productions of nature. It is dis appointing to find that the two finest trees found in the forest have been wantonly destroyed for mere curiosity. "Relig,io-Spenseri" is a very interesting paper on the works of that poet, as compared with Ariosto, and can be recommended to all lovers of literature. The close of Spenser's unfinished poem is a very appropriate end to it, and it is here said that who would not hope that his Maker had reserved it for Himself to put the last Amen by calling him to that rest for which he so desired, when he wrote, "Oh ! that great Sabbah ! God grant me tha Sabbath sight!" "Miss Marjoribanks" this month meets with serious trouble. Her father dies suddenly, and it is discovered that she is nearly penniless, so that we may ex pect her to appear before us in a new style shortly. There is an amusing satirical sketch in verso on Stuart Mill's examination of Hamilton, in which the writer declares that by his logic " I'll prove there's no such thing as Mill If Mill disproves both mind and matter." LONDON SOCIETY.—This is one of the most at- tractive of the numerous periodicals that now throng our libraries and book-stalls, and it well maintains its position this month. St. Valentine is the pre siding spirit that rules its table of contents, and many lively readers will be amused and interested at the varied forms in which its appearance is made in legend and tale, and song and story. "Bradbury's Sister" is a tale with a moral for " flinty-headed fathers," which undesirable specimen of humanity abounds in the present day, according to the author's notion. "The Two Valen- tines" is a pretty sketch of the adventures of two young girls who were reduced to great straits, until an unex pected turn of the wheel of fortune made them wives of millionaires instead of vendors of valentines. A pretty conceit of a valentine connects these two distinct portions of their existence. "A String from St. Valentine's Lyre" is a reminiscence of old forms and ceremonies respecting this season of the year, where it is said the traditions and observances were without " persiflage and ridicule." "A Valentine in the Breezes" is the title of some flowing verses, while "A Valentine of the Elizabethan Age" in an old album is quaint and peculiar. "Faces in the Fire" is a very interesting illustration, that reproduces the eventful scenes of past days, their joys and sorrows, in striking semblance, recalling those beautiful lines of Longfellow which tell of the footsteps of angels. " A Remembered Spring" alludes to the blighted hope of a life through the cupidity of the fair lady, who could never have figured as the heroine of "Janet's Choice." "The Claret Song" is a spirited sketch of the glories and wonders of the " gentle men of wines," as it is here designated. The style is pleas ing and the metre flowing, as will be seen from the follow ing verses : In each light purple bubble A thousand visions throng, I see the vineyards redden, I hear the vintage throng. The skies of France are o'er me, The blue Garonne below, 0 For fancy finds no f r i en d like A glass of good—Bordeaux. And from that sunny south-land Its thoughts the bright wine brings Of days when Gascon vineyards Were ruled by English kings, Of knights who fought and conquered Five hundred years ago, And quaffed with sable Edward A glass of good Bordeaux. "Proposals" is an article that is entertaining, and most profuse in illustrative anecdote. " Women's Vocation" contains some really important hints and directions to those who bring up young girls to a butterfly existence, and send them into the world unfit to meet its trials, and unprepared to cope with its cares. " The Best Man" is a lively and yet lugubrious chronicle of the difficulties that attend that awkward office. " The Operations of Laurence Keene" are continued, and in this instalment he reaches the culminating point of success, and begins the downward road with "black care standing behind his chair and wait ing upon him sedulously." " Camp Life of a Magistrate in India" is a very interesting article, and te]ls of the mul tifarious duties which these gentlemen have to perform. " The Book of Perfumes" is an account of the attractive little volume recently published by Rimmel, and discloses some strange secrets connected with this odoriferous subject. Referring to the shrivelled relics of those who "walked in Thebes' streets three thou sand years ago," it is stated that the reason why the Egyptians took such care in embalming their dead was that they believe in the transmigration of souls, and wished that their friends, after concluding their long journey, "might find their original envelopes in a tolerable state of preservation." Those who seek to become attractive by artificial means may with great advantage dwell upon the advice here tendered to them, that " cold water, fresh air, and exercise are the best receipts for health and beauty. A second chapter on "Historical Notes on our National Card-game" furnishes us with many useful hints about whist. A most interesting article is that which is entitled the "Merchant Princes of England." It relates to the Peels of Manchester, and contains some entertaining sketches of the rise of that city into mark and affluence. It is well said in Coningsby that " instead of the city of the violet grove a Lancashire village has expanded into a vast region of factories and warehouses; but,lrightly considered, Manchester is as great a human exploit as Athens." A hundred years ago Manchester was a small town. In 1759 there were in it and Salford hardly 20,000 inhabitants, one-twenty-fourth of the present population. The trade consisted of the manufaoture of coarse woollen articles, and the leading merchants were pedlars and small trades men "compared with the cotton lords of our time. The Peels were very instrumental in conducing to the prosperity of the place with which their names are inseparably associated. The first calico manu facturers of Lancashire were Robert Peel and his brother-in-law, the former being the great grand father of the present baronet. Many curious incidents and strange contrasts present themselves to notice as we dwell upon the doings here chronicled. Thus we compare the birth-place of old Robert Peel at Blackburn, with its thatched roof, with the elegant illustration of Drayton Manor, and consider how astonished the contemporarie s of the first baronet would have been if they had seen through the vista of time that the great grandchild of him who doubted if he could afford to pay nine shillings a week for his board would have for sponsor the Sovereign of England. Such an incident affords practical proof of the advantages afforded by the English Constitution, however much it may suit- Mr. Bright and his friends to sneer at it, and to declaim against its principles. For thirty years this Robert Peel held his seat in seven suc cessive Houses, and died one of the richest men in Eng land. He was, in truth, a fine specimen of the merchant princes of England, who may perchance live in obscurity, and persevere through toil and difficulty, but who often live to attain great honour and celebrity, and leave behind them a name famous in their own generation, and remora-• bered through generations to come as the founders of families who mingle with the highest and aro associated with the most distinguished in the land, and may well be proud to trace their origin to the nobility of labour and the long pedigree of toil. THE ARGOSY.--Charles Reade's animated story of " Griffith Gaunt " proceeds with unabated inte rest. The close of the last chapter left Mistress Kate full gallop towards the spot where her rival lovers were settling their disputes by the logic a pistol and bullet. She arrives in this number, as the illustration very forcibly shows us, in the very nick of time when the weapons are raised for the second time with unmistakeable meaning. In addition to the excite ment attending this adventure, we have the crisis of read ing Mr. Charlton's will. When the result proves Cathe rine herself to be the heiress the general astonishment is unbounded, and the disappointment of the hero, who be lieves he has lost both his estate and his love, is corre spondingly great. What course he will adopt at this juncture remains to be seen. " A Sculptor's Life in the last Century" gives us an account of the career of Roubiliael who, like many other men of genius, obtained less worldly fortune than reputation by his efforts. It Was of Roubiliac that Lord Chesterfield said, " h e was the only statuary of the day ; all other artists were mere stone cutters." His chief error was a want of simplicity and naturalness in his designs, of which some of the alleg° - rical monuments in Westminster Abbey are not unfavour able examples. His tastes and habits are described as simple. He was content, we are told, to lead the easy, pleasant, tavern life favoured by the artists and men of letters of the eighteenth century, to which Johnson and Boswell hav e introduced us. " A bottle of claret and a game of wlnst solaced his leisure hours, and these were not numerous. He was constantly to be found in his studio, late at night , hard at work, long after his assistants had retired ; a viva cious, honest, warm-hearted ma; much and justly es teemed by his friends and contemporaries." "On Forminge Opinions of Books," byM a tth ew B rown, i s a c h a pter out a , the experience of a real book-lover, and a plea for the author against th e rea d er ' s poss ib le lack of compre hension Miss Rayner Parkes contributes or sympathy. a lively paper on the " Land of Gossip," and the disagreeable , un real " doubles" of ourselves which exist there. Miss Amel ia B. Edwards gives us a pleasant story of a young artist's struggles, sufferings, and triumphs, and "A Peep at Mad rid" will be read with inte res t, es p ec i a ll y now that Seam and Spanish aff a i rs are awa k en i ng unusual attent ion. Two poetesses, I sa C ra i g an d Ch r i st i na Rossett i , con tribute specimens of their s kill, b u t, t o con f ess t h e t ru th, the reader, unless he be very i n d u l gen t ,w ill b e di sa ppointed is both. THE BRITISH ARMY AND NAVY REviEvir.--- - T hhi review opens with a short sketch of a nobleman brave as ever drew a sword or carried the orders of its chief through the stormy tide of battle. Where all was chivalryand daring, there was the Earl of March careering in his pride of place on the memorable day o f Waterloo. The notice is prefaced by an excellent portrait of the late Duke of Richmond, which is a fine specimen. °I the picture gallery of illustrious men who are to adorn this magazine. Mr. Hamilton Hume resumes his memoir of Edward John Eyre by giving an account of the hardshiP° he encountered and overcame in his famous exploration s Australia some twenty-five y ears ago, wh i ch w ill be read with an interest heightened by his late government of Jamaica. But before giving this description Mr. ge r° produces a singular testimony in corroboration of Gordon 'S complicity in the rebellion—a circumstance hitherto un known. Referring to the outcry made in England that Gordon had been convicted and executed without a parti cle of evidence to show that he was implicated in the rebel lion, a gentleman, late a member of the Legislative Council in Jamaica, who knew Gordon well, stated thatprior to the outbreak Gordon had been trying not only to purchase arms and ammunition, but actually a vessel of war used by the Confederates as a blockade runner. A letter, contain ing the names and dates of the parties concerned, was given so accurately that the gentleman " was startled that suc h damning proofs of guilt had not been given to the public by the Government in order to allay the fears of those who regard Gordon as a martyr." The account of Mr. Eyee'S unparalleled journey, in which he "he did what no ma tt had ever done before, and no man will ever do again," wi ll be resumed in the next number of the magazine. " Un der Two Flags," by Ouid a , i s con ti nue d w i t h una b a t e d spirit' The incidents are narrated in language as glowing and rich in its sparkling variety as almost to startle and amaze the reader with its copiousness of exquisite description. Our Naval Training Sy s t em " enters thoroughly into t h e merit° of what the navy p rom i ses to b e as compared to it s fornier condition, with respect t o men, di sc i p li ne, an d the unit" - mity introduced on b oar d th e var i ous tra i n i ng s hips at the several ports. Another arti c l e referring to "Military E cin ; cation in Army Sch oo l s " i s penne d i n a s i m il ar sp irit, and does equal justice to th e su bj ec t . "N otes on th e Battle of Waterloo," by G enera l Si r J ames Sh aw K enne dy, is Grill; cal and int eres ti ng , s h ow i ng the " mistakes " committedteu both by Wellingto n an d N apo l eon. "A n Old Indian carri es us t o th e d ee d s o f other d ays in t"° land of the East—th e m ilit ary sc h oo l o f Englan d f r om the days of Lord Clive to those of Lord Clyde—a happy teration of bravery and battle not likely to occur again for a century to come. THE SHILLING MAGAZINE. Th e story Of " Phemie Keller," clever and powerful in design and execution, proceeds with unabated interest. T he incidents which meet us in this instalment form the crisis of Pheinie's life, but out of it she emerges 8 , wiser and better, if a sa dd er , woman, th oug h ver y differen t from the fair young girl whom we first met in Tords ie Church, or the wealthy courted mistress of Marshlands' whom piosperity had somewhat spoiled. Basil Stoudo A proves himself, as was before indicated, utterly unworthy of her love, and now, a childless widow, she is to begin ° new and lonely career in a strange home. For politician° Mr. Bonamy Price contributes an article on Reform, in which the troubled question is fully and temperately cussed. " Royal Authors," an essay by S. F. Willia ingt gives us a brief glimpse at the long catalogue of crown" wearers who have not been content with their material diadems, but have sougkt to add to them the more shadowy yet more durable wreaths of literary distinction. "A Word,„ about Wine" enum erates the advantages which the will"- drin f k r e o r m s o thisf different country parts now oft possesshe Continent. in t the e s l u f pp ly li e es ar e e on t i believe American w r it ers th e N ew World has w i ne s whic h will bear comp ar i son w i th most of their European riVa' , 8, and it is to be hoped if so that some enterprisin importer g will introduce th em amongs t us. Th e continuation of Robert Schumann's c h arac t er i s ti c "N o t es on Music an d Musicians" will gratify the reader. It i s a lways interes t " ing to hear th e first impressions produced by the g reat chef d'Geuvres with whi c h wo are f am ili ar , and this is especially the case when the critic is himself an artist of no mean capacity. It is w or th no ti ce , as an instance o! Schumann's discernment, that on hearing the "St. Pa ul, composed by Mendelssohn when a youth, he foretold t hat in his manhood the composer would create a yet nob ler oratorio—a prophecy amply fulfilled in the immor tal "Elijah." "An Incident in the Year 1809" is a painf ul story, founded, unfortunately, on fact, and it fully verifi es the old adage of truth being stranger than fiction. The story of " The Wild Flower of Ravensworth" is continuednot very pleasantly, and there are also papers on "ill° Staff College," and " A Song in the Princess." THE MONTH.—Several topics of interest mee t 120 in this number, the first being a brie. , me moir of Catherine M'Aulay, the foundre: S of the admirable Institute of the Sis ters of Mercy. Her career was a sing ular „ one, from the great obstacles that the circumstances of life placed in the way of her inclinations, and it was until she had reached middle life that she even began an openly religious life. It is remarked th a t it often hapr o that gt 0 reat works are not undertaken until their author are of mature age. " The late flowering plants are n ot s least beautiful or the least robust. L ar d Macaulay 'la_ remarked somewhere on the number of great literal"' P, r t % ductions which have not been begun till after the eie no _ lustre. Some of our most su ccess f u l statesmen and g e lo t rals have been comparatively unknown till they wer e their prime. In great spiritual works it is the . 0 i tho "Early Days of an Artist" is an interesting account °f to career of Turner from the barber's shop in Maide n " of P ae. „ the height of his honour and success. The lova_ ste itis,h a e r his life was, as is so often the case with men °f ge sad one, and it is here briefly told. Among the n " ot papers of merit we may mention one on " Grote's Plato, and on "A Highland i'astoral." ys' THE BOYS' OWN MAGAZINE. — MONTHLY MAGAZINE. Beeton. These excej o , little serials are as pleasant and popular tiful• and the illustrations of the f orm er are good a nd plou are The zoological sketches, both by pen and pe acii, among the best things in the contents. ____ _ —___ A GENEROUS OEFER.—The Schieswiger Nadi: ridden states that the house of Augustenburg has resolved that, in case the Duke obtains the succession in Schleswig- Holstein, he will renounce it in favou r of his younger brother, Christian, the betrothed of Princess Ilelents. kind