The Sun. — London, England, 1865-11-23 00:00:00

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Notice.—The Upper Box and Dress Circle Seats are num bered and reserved, and may be secured (without extra charge) at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open daily from Ten till Six. The GRAND BAL D'OPERA. will take place on TUESDAY, the 19th of December. R OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. (Opera Company, Limited.) THIS EVENING will be performed Meyerbeer's Grand Opera, L'AFII,ICAINE. Miss Louisa Fyne, Madame Lem mens-Sharrington, and Mrs. A. Cook; Messrs. ratey, C. Alberto Lawrence, Henry Corrl, A. Coo k, E. Dussek, J. G. Lyall, and Charles Adams. Conductor, Mr. Allred Mellon. Acting 3lanagcr, Mr , E. 31urniy, Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Commence at a quarter to 8. TrIIEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.- Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with the Farce of HUSBA.NDS BEWARE. Mr. G. Belmors ; Miss Hazlewood, Miss R. Leciercq, After which, Shakspere's Tragedy of KING JOHN: Messrs. s,James Anderson, T. Swinbourne, Raynor. Mrs.more, E. Phelps, C. Harcourt ; Miss Atkinson, H. Vandenhoff, Mrs. Hodson, &c. Comnce at 7. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.- Sole Lessee and 3Lansger, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, THREE WE,.KS A rI'ER MAR RIAGE. Mr. W. Farreu, Mr. Chippendale, Miss Snowden, 31188 .jelly Moore. Atter which, USED UP. Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. Howe, Miss Telly Moore, Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. To be followed by (10th time) WHO KILLED COCK ROBIN ? Mr. Chippendale, Mr. C. Mathews; Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Fitzwilliam, Sze Concluding with THE BALLET. Messrs. Arthur and Charles Leclercq, Miss Fanny ,S right, Miss C. Adams, and the Corps de Ballet. Commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.- 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 CR!. Mr Fechter, supported by Messrs. H. Widaicombe, S. Emery, C. Horsman, Raymond, FitzpatricK, Clifford. and Miss Elsworthy. To conclude with the Farce of NURSEY CHICKWEED. Messrs. ti. Widdicomb, Raymond, Moreland; Mrs. Lee and Miss Lavenu. Box Office open daily from Eleven till Five. Acting Manager, H. Barnett. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, at 7, GOOD FOR NOTHING. Mrs Alfred Mellon end Mr. Felix Rogers. After which, at 8, RIP VAN WINKLE. Rip (his 70th appearance). Mr. Jefferson, supported by Messrs. Billington, Y. Bedford, R Phillips, Felix Rogers, Ashley, tburne, C. J. Smith ; Mrs. Billington, &c. To ()Include, at half-plot 10, with TIIE WIDOW'S VICTIM. Messrs. Billington, Felix Rogers, Ashley; Miss Godsell, Miss Seaman, and Miss Jenny Wilimore. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, QUIET LODGINGS. After which, at a quarter to Eight, IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND. characters by Messrs. Vining, T. Mel ville, T. Mead, D. Murray, S. Calhaem. F. Villiers, J. G. Shore, G. Murray, H. Mellon, C. Seyton, R. 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Accordingly, the aggressor is likely to be speedily called to a strict account ; although in dealing with a country less immediately affecting European interests he might, judging from former examples, have escaped with more impunity. The merchants of Liverpool, as we have seen, lost no time in addressing the Foreign. office on the fiubj eet, and the heade of the London houses engaged in the Chilian trade have since pre sented a memorial to the Earl of CLARENDON. A reply was received from Mr. HAMMOND yesterday, in which the Under-Secretary stated that Her MAJESTY'S Government were fully sensible of the injurious effect likely to be produced upon British commerce by the blockade. Instructions on the subject were sent to Her MAJESTY'S Minister . at Madrid on the 18th inst., according to Mr. HAM MOND'S statement, and he adds that the Government are fully resolved to use their best endeavours to bring the matter to a speedy conclusion. It is to be hoped that the strong remonstrances which have been addressed to the Cabinet of Madrid will in duce the Spanish Government to moderate its ex travagant pretensions. M. TAVERA, in his recent letter, seeks to exonerate his chiefs, and to throw the blame upon Admiral PAREJA, since he declares that he has been continually as sured of the anxiety of the Spanish Government to maintain amicable arrangements with Chili, saving only the dignity of Spain. We fear, how ever, that this excuse can hardly be accepted. It is likely enough, indeed, that should the remon strances of other nations prove too strong for Spain to disregard, her Ministers will find it convenient to make Admiral PAREJA their scapegoat, but it is not likely that a man in so important an office should so greatly exceed his instructions ; neither is it probable that the Spanish Government would have appointed a new Ambassador without giving him fully to understand their intentions towards Chili. The very facts of Admiral PAREJA superseding M. TAVERA, and of his combining the functions of Admiral and Ambassa dor, are significant enough. He can supply his diplomatic dictation by his naval authority, and ex cuse his aggression as an Admiral by his duty as an Ambassador. The truth is no doubt that Spain finds it very convenient to reconcile her exhausted treasury at the expense of the South American Republics, and having succeeded only too well with Peru, she now thinks it expedient to extend her pro ceedings. Admiral PAREJA'S communication was addressed to the Chilian Government on the fiftieth anniversary of their independence, a wanton insult, which was not without meaning. The Spaniards are likely, however, to find they have gone too far. The merchants of Havre have addressed the Emperor on the subject, and the Paris merchants have convoked a meeting, while the Americans are also likely to take the matter up. If they do so there will be little chance for the fleet of Admiral PAREJA. The Chilian Government has, it is said, already issued letters of marque, and it is said that many of them have gone to the United States, so that it is more than probable the attempt to enrich the Spanish exchequer will be a very dis astrous one. Half a dozen privateers from Liver pool and New York will make short work with Spanish commerce, and there will be no unnecessary delay should the Americans accept the letters, which they will most probably do, being at no loss for efficient vessels or daring spirits to man and lead them. Chili has assumed a most resolute atti tude, and the aggressor will find that she has a more troublesome customer to deal with than she had when attacking Peru. The Chilians are de termined neither to part with their independence nor to sacrifice their treasure and encumber their resources to satisfy a demand which may be re peated next year on equally frivolous pretexts. The rule that is of universal application in private life holds good also in the affairs of nations. If a man once begins to buy off an aggressor, or an importunate claimant who for some reason or another seeks to coerce him, his contributions are never ceasing. Having once weakly yielded he has added to his own difficulties, and the chain on his resources increases year by year. Spain would end by extorting a species of tribute from the Republics whose independence was long ago recognised by the European Powers if she could proceed in her unscrupulous course un molested. Chili probably relies on foreign assist ance, and reckons on the interference of England and France, knowing the detriment to their com mercial interests involved in the blockade, but the spirit of the people and the bold and resolute course adopted by the Government are no less to be com mended. "No sooner," says a Valparaiso journal, " were PAREJA'S intentions fully disclosed, and his determination to enforce the demand of Spain by hostilities, notwithstanding all efforts to the con trary, looked upon as settled, than the Congress of Chili, in both houses, passed a declaration of war. A loan of $20,000,000 has been authorised, and un limited power granted the executive for raising troops and procuring ships for the defence of the country." Notwithstanding this unanimity and resolution, Chili has of course suffered severely. Business at Valparaiso has been paralysed, and a regular panic produced. The news of the crisis occasioned an immediate run on the banks, but the Congress—who seem fully equal to the difficulty of the situation—at once passed a law allowing the banks to issue a million and a half of bank-notes under certain restrictions. This will of course tend materially to improN e the finan cial situation even in face of Admiral PAREJA'S threats, that if Chili does not yield in 45 days he will proceed to stronger measures, meaning, pro bably, the bombardment of Valparaiso. The Ad miral himself, however, may be in a different posi tion before then, and his Government may have found it expedient on many grounds to recall him before he can fulfil his kind intentions. We have seen the Chilian authorities, having declared war, mean something more than mere verbal defiance by such a proceeding, and already there are some ominous movements. A corvette and a steamer well armed, fully manned, and provisioned for a long cruise, succeeded in getting out through the blockading fleet. Their destination is unknown, but it is not difficult to guess. The blockade is indeed ridiculously ineffectual, and that of itself would constitute a quite sufficient reason for disregarding it. The minor TheC Chilian Government have thrown open all the ports to foreign commerce, and taken off all import and export duties, advantages of which foreign merchants will promptly avail them selves. Four smart steamers, it is said, were to leave New York on the 10th inst. with the inten tion of running the blockade—a feat they will be very likely to accomplish. The Consul s ma i n t a i n their protest against the unwarrantable conduct of S pa i n , a course in which they w ill of course be I s upported by their Governments. Altogeth er , S pa i n has got herself into a difficulty from which it is very improbable that she will extricate herself without material sacrifice as well as loss of re putation. A letter in the Times of to-day calls attention to the question of compensation, which is one that just now engages a considerable share of notice, and well deserves it, on account of its importance and interest to many. It is quite true what is stated by the writer, that the time has now passed when there existed a chance of " stamping out" the disease by the sweeping course pursued ; but, not withstanding this, the " Inspectors continue to decree wholesale slaughter of animals that may be the companions of those attacked." It stands to reason that the continuance of this course must be Productive of immense loss to 11 concerned, and, certainly, we have as yet seen no beneficial effects result from the constantr.use of the " pole-axe." Surely it is time that the Go vernment made some alteration in this plan, for it is adding to the distress already too keenly felt in all - parts of the country. In many places influen tial persons have condemned the " wholesale slaugh ter," but with no avail. This is one great disad vange which we have had to contend against in this calamity of the cattle plague occurring at a time when Parliament is not sitting. The force of public opinion then has full weight in influencing the decision of the Legislature in such cases, but, as things have now turned out, the unfortunate possessors of cattle have had to run the risks of experimental doctoring that are begun in haste, and yet not changed or modified to suit the tests of experience. It was all very well at first to adopt the extreme measure of the Govern ment inspectors having power to slaughter all ani mals they thought proper, but the very reason which then sanctioned the adoption of the course now operates against it, because the chance of stopping the progress of the disease by this means is lost, since the plague has spread in all directions. If, however, it be resolved upon by the authorities to continue this course of destruction for an indefinite period, it is of national im portance that some compensation should be given to those who suffer so greatly by the continu ance of this experimental process. In the letter referred to it is said with great justice that if this butchery is intended to protect other herds, and thus to conduce to the advantage of the public, " the public ought in equity to compensate the farmer for all beasts doomed by the public officer to the bul let or the pole-axe." It is always a false system to pursue to make some individuals the chief sufferers by any national calamity, and this case of the cattle plague is, above all others, one in which the loss should be borne by the whole community, and not confined to particular parts. As soon as Parliament meets there can be no doubt that the matter will receive due inquiry, but in the meantime there is no excuse for the arbitrary course now in vogue being continued. Injustice is always doubly hard to bear, and it certainly is unjust to insist upon the whole sale destruction of animals not affected, and yet to refuse any compensation. What makes it the more objectionable is that as it is the losses entailed upon the owners of cattle by the prevalence of the disease are already so numerous and heavy that they can ill afford to bear an additional burden. Over work is one of the chief evils of the present day, and in all classes it is carried to a great excess. Nothing is more injurious to health and strength, nor so short-sighted a principle, for it defeats its own purpose in the end. The work cannot possibly be so well done, and, what is of far more conse quence, the energies of the worker must sooner or later fall a sacrifice to over-pressure and constant excitement, without due rest and relaxation. Mis taken and mischievous as such a habit is among those classes who are more or less independent, it is with those who are compelled to labour inces santly for their own support and those of their families that the public have to do. Last year there was a great outcry raised concerning the mis management of dressmakers' assistants and appren tices, but it is to be feared with very little practica result or real benefit accruing to the sufferers. The 1 length of time which some of those employed on railways are kept at their posts has often been re ferred to, and it will be remembered that in the memorable accident on the Brighton line some time back it was ascertained that some men were en gaged for far too many hours at a stretch. No doubt, however, in this instance, as in many others, the examinations relative to the disaster brought to light a practice only too prevalent in other directions. On Tuesday Dr. LANK ESTER held an inquiry on the body of a man who was killed on the London and North-Western Railway, while he was passing a truck from one line to another by means of a turn table. There was nothing extraordinary in the accident, but the jury would not return a verdict until further investigation was made, on account of some of the witnesses stating that deceased had been overworked. A young woman, who appeared on behalf of deceased's wife, declared that before the accident the unfortunate man had worked, without intermission, for two nights and one day. In proof of this she said that she had gone with the wife to get the week's salary, and that these " two days and a half overtime were credited on the bill." The ordinary night hours were justly censured by the jury as being far too long, from six one evening to seven the following morning was stated by one of the witnesses as the time which he (deceased) and the other men worked, and the accident happened during the last hour of work. The jury properly remarked that it was no wonder the deceased had made the mistake which cost his life in scotching the wheels of his truck before it was fairly on the turntable when they considered how the man bad been overworked. It will be a great point gained if this melancholy occurrence prove the means of ameliorating the management of work on railway lines. The safety of the public is greatly endangered by those employed in fulfilling important duties being wearied and worn out, and it is not the ques tion whether the men are not free agents to engage in extra work. Their own safety and the safety of the public demand that no more than ordinary duties are undertaken in such perilous work as railway travelling often necessitates. Any attempt to do too much is very likely to prove fatal as in the instance above recorded, and if it does not invari ably happen so, that is no excuse for those who incur the risk, nor for those who allow them to do so. The LATE W. M. THACKERAY.—The honorary monument to Wm. Makepeace Thackeray has been erected in Westminster Abbey. The memorial consists of a fine bust, by Baron Marochetti, upon a base of red ser pentine, and mounted on a bronze support. The inscrip tion simply records the name, with the dates of birth and death. The bust is slightly toned. It is fixed against a wall column in the south transept, behind the statue of Addison. The work was uncovered on Monday morning, the daughters of the lamented author, the Dean of Westminster, the sculptor and the honorary secretary of the Memorial Fund, Mr. Shirley Brooks, attending. TRANSPORT OF TROOPS BY RAILWAY.—To show the great facilities which railways now afford for the transport of troops to all parts of the country, Lieut.- Colonel Palmer, of Nazing Park, lately offered the Secre tary of State of War, at any time he might desire it, to place the battery of six guns attached to the Essex Yeo manry Cavalry with 100 men upon the railway at Walt hamCross, and to convey them within 24 hours to any part of the North of Ireland. Lieutenant-Colonel Palmer has offered to rase a regiment of light cavalry (lancers) in the North of Ireland, to act in support of and with these guns, f it should be required. SAD DEATH OF A GIRL.--A remarkable accident h hims a aeab s nitt, j oas U mnsatintss falloccurred at Aberdare, Glamorganshire. It eton providep a r b a o c u t it on eetihntehmeeosl themselves with districts waint hdtoeraa f l o ms r lfv t r h omm e y s p s fuorocohrmefrr frag ments bya her various ergipi. alrparents passing bnotustb r 6f r y k e e s a a rs nd old, daybreak named waggons. in s e t u Elizao. search hnoS Price,f a c u o radg ' a Saturday wastid smorn ingse hn et succeedediu possessing hers e lf o f a l ump weighing between GO and 40 lb. Having placed it on h er h ea d she was car rying it home, when, upon passing down one of the cinder tops, her foot slipped, and she was thrown backward. The block of coal fell forward, and came with its entire weight upon her chest and stom ach. On recovering hers e lf a little she cottagentveexdcltaimo ed ~3i stagger home, and on enterin g her I got the coal, b u t parents' fell down, and it has kille d me." Her mother was terribly alarmed, but on the poor gir l exclaimin g " Oh, I am dying," w she carried her to an up - stairs room, where, in . a very few minutee afterwards, she expind.—CamMan Daily Leader, rHE SUN, LONJDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 23, lEEE. LA TEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) SPAIN. MADRID, Nov. 22 (Evening). Marshal Narvaez arrived here yesterday. The Progressists of Barcelona, not being willing to continue in the policy of abstention, have put forward Senor Madoz as their candidate for Congress. Negotiations for a treaty of commerce between Spain and Italy will be commenced at Madrid. Yesterday three cases only of cholera occurred at Seville, and two others throughout the rest of Spain. AMERICA. SOUTHAMP TON, Nov. 23. The North German Lloyd's steamer Bremen sailed hence this morning, with the English, French, and German mails for New York, with a full com plement of passengers and a large cargo, including French jewellery value 252,500 fr. The heavy south-westerly gale prevented the Bre men from sailing yesterday. HEAVY GALE AT PLYMOUTH. PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY MORNING. This morning, at high water, two Government tugs and a merchant steamer started the emigrant ship Amoor about half her length ahead, when the tide ebbed, and she grounded again. To-day she will be further lightened, and to-morrow morning another effort will be made. The tides are, how ever, increasing. AUSTRIA. The New Free Press of Vienna publishes the fol lowing :—" It will have been observed that the speech of King Victor Emmanuel officially an nounces as an accomplished fact the recognition of Italy by Bavaria and Saxony. In fact, Bavaria has already notified to the Berlin Cabinet the resolution she has taken in that respect. We also learn that Hanover has informed the Prussian Government that it is ready to recognise the king dom of Italy with a view to the conclusion of a commercial treaty. All these facts are very signifi cant, and point out the consequences of the Gastein Convention. The secondary States regard them selves as relieved from all obligations towards Austria, and only consult their own interests. This is manifest in every line of the declaration made by Bavaria, Saxony, and Hesse-Darmstadt in the last sitting of the Germanic Diet. It is, doubtless, to this cause that we i must attrbute the opposition now evinced at Vienna against the tendencies of Prus rian annexation. The Gastein Convention has been justified by saying that it was the only means to avoid a war with Prussia. There is no reason now for M. de Bismarck to go very far to bring about such an extremity. What will then be done ?" BAVARIA. The Official Gazette of Bavaria says :—" The Government of the King has resolved to resume diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of Italy. It has been guided in this by the consideration of the general state of things of Europe and of Germany, and of the important fact that, with the exception of Austria, nearly all the European States, and especially the Catholic States, have recognised the kingdom of Italy. It was, , moreover, induced to do so from the desire to protect and develope the nu merous private relations between Bavarians and Italians, as also the interests of our industry and commerce." FRANCE. We take the following from La Patric :—" The King and Queen of Portugal and the young Prince Royal are expected at Compiegne on the Bth De cember, where they will remain till the 14th. It is presumed that after their sojourn at Compiegne their Portuguese Majesties will stay some time at Paris, where they will inhabit the Pavilion Marsan. The King, Dom Lniz, and the Queen are accompa nied by- a suite of 10 persons. The Portuguese Minister at Paris, the Viscountess de Paiva, and the whole of the Legation,will proceed to Cornpiegno to receive their Majesties. The Empress has in vited to meet them the Prince of Hohenzollern- Sigmaringen and the Princess his wife, who is a sister of the King Dom Luiz." A double murder was committed three nights since at Tour d'Aigles (Vaucluse) on the persons of a man and his wife named Arniaud, both about 80 years of age. As the aged couple were not seen at the usual hour the next morning, the neighbours went to ascertain the cause, and found them both lying dead in their kitchen, each with a cord drawn tight round the neck, and the skull fractured by blows with some blunt instrument. As the house had evidently been ransacked, robbery must have been the motive of the crimes, in which more than one person appears to have been concerned. M. Laurent Pichat, editor of the Phare de la Loire, and M.. Evariste Mangin, gerant of the same journal, appeared two days back before the Correctional Tribunal of Nantes, accused of exciting to contempt of the Government and of turning the Catholic religion into derision. The court, declar ing the charges proved, condemned the former to three months' imprisonment and I,ooof. fine, and the latter to one month and 500 f. fine. At an industrial exhibition recently hell atVienne (Isere), a variety of artificial legs, constructed on an entirely new principle, were exposed to view. The jurymcn, whose duty it was to decide on the comparative merits of the instruments, were much perplexed ; at last they bethought them of assem bling half a dozen Crimean and Mexican anzputes and starting them over a half-mile course equipped with the rival legs. The prize is stated to have been won by an invalide, both of whose natural legs had been taken off at the knee, who nevertheless went over the distance in nine minutes. The bulletin of the Paris Observatory gives the following as the atmospheric situation yesterday : " The gale wnich was raging on Monday morning in the Channel has taken an easterly direction, and this morning is in the Baltic. The barometer has fallen at St. Petersburg to 744 millimetres, and the wind there is strong from the S.W. On the coasts of the Channel a gale was blowing with great force from S.W., notably at Boulogne ; it was likewise strong at Havre and at Lorient. This new tempest has its centre in the North-West of Ireland. The barometer there has fallen to 730 millimetres at Greencastle. Foul weather is spreading over all Spain as far as Gibraltar. The sky is overcast and rainy over Western Europe, from Tarifato Corunna, Brest, London, and Skudernoer."—ln Paris yester day the weather was an alternation of rain and wind, S.W., with a temperature exceedingly mild for the time of year. At three in the afternoon the ther mometer marked 12-5 Centigrade (54 1-2 Fahren heit). An alarming incident occurred two days back on the Lyons railway, between the Joigny and Laroche stations, by the flooring of the carriage reserved for ladies taking fire from sparks from the locomotive. Fortunately signals made from the window were observed by the guard, and the train being stopped the occupants alighted. The guard then invited the male passengers to assist him in tilting the burning carriage over the embankment, but a sufficient number not having offered their aid, he was forced to attach it to the engine and take it on to the Laroche station. A communication from Toulon states that the steam frigate Panama has received orders to remain in that port to carry back the Duke de Magenta to Algeria. it is thought that the marshal's family, who accompanied him to France, will pass the winter in Paris. A fire broke out three nights back at Bagneres de-Bigorre, in the Place Lafayette, and two houses, one belonging to M. Lafforgue and the other to M. Courtade, were soon enveloped in flames. During six hours the most energetic efforts were made by the fire brigade, assisted by the authorities and the whole population, to isolate the burning mass. The object was at last attained, but the two buildings in question were totally destroyed. The loss is said to be considerable. The Ministry of Agriculture, Commerce, and Public Works, has just published the official returns of the gross receipts of all the French railways for the first nine months of the present year, which, for both the old and new networks, amount to 410,484,611 f., showing an increase, as compared with the same period of last year, of 23,934,031 f. The Minister of War has decided that the exer cises of the Ecole Normale de Tir at the camp of Chalons shall commence on Dec. 15 for officers, and on Jan. 15 for sub-officers and corporals. The course will be closed on May 25. Each corps of infantry is to send either two sub-officers or a sub officer and a corporal. The Tribunal of Correctional Police has just tried M. Millaud, proprietor and responsible editor of the Petit Journal, on a charge of having founded a lot tery without authorisation, and announced it in the public press. M. Lespes, who writes in Petit Journal under the pseudonym of Tirnotinie Trimm, was charged as an accomplice, in having written and published articles recommending the said lottery to the attention of the public. The lottery consisted in offering for sale, at 35fr. each, one-tenth shares of Mexican bonds issued at 340 fr. each, but to be paid off at 500 fr., when drawn by lot. Each of those tenths was entitled to interest repre sented to be equal to 8 per cent., and also to a tenth part of any prize that might fall to the bond at the half-yearly drawings. The Public Prosecutor maintained that this arrangement was an unauthorised lottery, prohibited by the law of 21st May, 1836. The counsel for the defendants maintained that the combination imagined by M. Millaud was not a lottery within the meaning of the law any more than was the loan itself, and that it was not more illegal to sell a bond to ten persons than to one. The Tribunal, however, took the same view of the law as the public pro secutor, and declared that the combination incri minated was nothing but a lottery, which the loan was not, as the prizes offered to the bondholders were not its principal object; it therefore declared the charge fully established, and sentenced Millaud to pay a fine of 100 f., and Lespes one of 50f. It also ordered the confiscation of all the papers seized connected with the lottery, and condemned the two defendants conjointly to pay all the costs of the prosecution. BounsE, Nov. 22.—Two o'Clock.—The market shows much more animation to-day. Three per Cent. Stock has advanced 10c., viz., to 68f. 65c., and Italian Stock is demanded at 65f. 7ic., with an improvement of 'lie. Credit Mobiliers have an ad vance of sf. Spanish Mobilier if. 25c. Immo biliere Shares 3f. 75c. Transatlantic 2f. 50c. In the Railway Department Northern Shares have an advance of lf. 25c., and Lyons 2f. 50c. Lombards have also recovered, and are now doing at 393 f. 75c., an augmentation of 101. Orleans and Sara gossa Shares have retrograded If. 25c. Consols are telegraphed from London with a rise of -A- per cent. New Ottoman 5 per Cent. Stock has been in great demand at 43f. 10c cent. Three o'Clock.—T. the following quotations : 41 per Cents _ 97 Ito. end month — , with an advance of per 'he market has closed on 3 per Cents. 6B 65 Do. end month 62 50 Credit Mobilier BBO Do. end month 877 50 Bank Shares 3740 Ditto Threes — Roman 73 Mexican Loan 49 50 Do. Bonds 328 75 Russian - Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt Deferred Credit Foncier 1330 Italian Loan 65 05 Do. end month 65 05 Acct. ... 821 25 ... 1100 - - ... 825 568 75 - - 537 50 - - ... 518 75 - - '207 50 - - 410 - - 395 - - - ... 178 75 - ... 100 - 100 - RAILWAYS. Cash. Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern Western Eastern Sardinian . Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona Roman MARKETS—This Day. METROPOLITAN CATTLE. To-day's market was fairly supplied with beasts as to number. The demand for all breeds was heavy, and the quotations had a drooping tendency. The top figure was 5s 2d per 81b. The show of sheep was moderate, and sales progressed slowly, on rather lower terms. The best Downs realised Gs 8d per 81b. Calves, the supply of which was extensive, were very dull, at the late decline in value. Prices ranged from 4s to 5s per 81b. The pork trade was heavy, and prices were not supported. The highest figure was Zis 2d per 81b. Milch cows were very dull and rather cheaper. Per 81b to sink the offal. s ds d e ds d Crse. & inf. beasts... 3 2 3 6 Pme erg-wool sheep 5 8 6 0 Second quality do ..3 8 4 4 Prime o'thdown 00.6 4 6 8 Prime large oxen ..4 6 4 10 La ge coarse calvcs.4 0 4 6 Prime Scuts, ac.... 5 0 a 2 Prime small d0......4 8 5 0 Crse. and int. sheep. 4 0 4 8 Large hugs .3 o 4 6 Second quality do ..4 10 5 e Small porkers 4 8 5 2 Lam05....08 Od to 0 Od. Suckling calves, 19s to 225 ; and quarter-old store pigs, 29 to 323 each. 1 3OO 50 Head of stock on sale. Total supply. Foreign supply. • Beasts Cows Beasts .. . 1,950 Cows. l3. t, Sheep! 7,550 Sheep ... Calves 6BO Ca yes ... eigs 312 ,Pigs MEAT MARKETS. NEWGATE AND LEADENTIALL.—The supplies of meat are moderately good, and the trade is heavy, at drooping prices. Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 8d ; mutton, 3s Od to 5s 4d ; real, 3s 8d to 4s Gd ; and pork, 4s 4d to 5s 8d per 81b by the carcase. SOUTHALL, Nov. 22.—The supply of stock was moderate, and sales progressed slowly, at drooping prices. Beef, from 3s 4d to 5s Od; mutton, 4s to 6s 4d; veal, 4s Od to 4s 8d ; and pork, 4s Od to 5s 2d per 81b. to sink the offal. RomFoRD, Nov. 22.—A1l kinds of stock were heavy, as follows :—Beef, from 3s 2d to 5s Od; mutton, 4s Od to Gs 6cl; veal, 4s 2d to 4s 8d; pork, 4s Od to 5s Od per 81h. Suckling calves, 18s to 21s quarter-old store pigs, 20s to 82s ; and mulch cows, £l7 to £2O each. II AY SMITIIFIEI,II.-31oadow hay, £4 lOs to £5 15s; clover, £5 Os to £6 15s Od ; and straw, £1 18s to £2 5s per load. Moderate supply, CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £4 lOs to £G Os; clover, £5 Os to £6 15s Od; and straw, £2 Os to £2 5s per load. Trade steady. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow bay £1 lOs to £5 15s; clover, £5 5s to £7 Os Od ; and straw, £1 18s to £2 53 Per load. A slow trade. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. s. d. flolywell Main lB 6 Carway and Duffryn Hartlepool East Hartlepool Walls End Haswell... 20 0 Iletton 2O 6 N.Staffordshire 17 6 Russell's Hutton Tees s. d. Ships at market, 2G; sold, 21. THE HIGH PRICE Or MEAT.—Whatever, says a correspondent, may be said, pro or con., in reference to the dearness of meat, the fact is patent and incontestable, that throughout the whole of this year prime haunches of Welsh mutton have and are still supplied from Osborne House, Ludgate-hill, to families of distinction, and of no distinction at all, at the unvarying price of 9d. per lb. We understand from the same informant, that Mr. Osborne is about, or really has, inaugurated a similarly acceptable reform in the supply of poultry, charging an average price of four shillings and ninepence a couple for chickens, and other poultry at a uniform rate per lb. Mr. Osborne deserves every success in a movement so fraught with good to all, and which may be fairly termed national. DEATH OF LIEUTENANT-COLONEL BURNS.—The poet Burns died in 1796, and the living links which connect him with the present generation are becoming fewer and fewer every year. His son, Lieutenant-Colonel James Glencairn Burns, died on Saturday at Cheltenham. He was the youngest of the three brothers, who, on his re turn from India some 20 years ago, received a great ova tion at Ayr, undor the presidency of the late Earl of Eglin ton. Although not inheriting any of the poetic genius of his father, ho was an agreeable and accomplished man, naturally proud of the name which he bore, and which carried with it a happy prestige wherever he went. During later years he resided chiefly at Cheltenham, but he paid occasional visits to Scotland, and was held in much esteem by intimate friends in Dumfries, Edinburgh, and Glasgow. Edinburgh Courant. THE DANGER OF PRACTICAL JOKING.—A foolish practical joke was lately played at Rastatt, which proved eventually to be no joke to the party playing it. A soldier belonging to the company on guard wrapped him self up in leaves and branches in such a manner as entirely to conceal his humanity, and in the middle of the night crept up on all fours to one of the sentinels. The latter, astonished at the extraordinary phenomenon, challenged it three times without receiving any answer. Upon this he put his bayonet into it and the intruder fell without uttering a sound. It was his last joke. The man was dead. The Earl Annesley has left town on a visit to Lord Brougham at Tidworth Park. LITERATURE. The Fate of Ihorsghyll. By Mrs. M. A. Bird, Author of " The Hawkshaws," &c. 3 vols. John Maxwell and Co. At the opening of the story Thorsghyll Chace is expecting the return of its master and his bride, his second wife, a French lady of considerable at tractions and very considerable temper. Great is the apprehension of the old servants at the advent of the stranger, and very cold is Mrs. Thorsghyll's greeting to her step-children, but hardly colder than the greeting accorded by Mr. Thorsghyll to his heir. Little Mabel he embraces very cordially as the image of her lost mother, but to her twin brother Roderick he scarcely vouchsafes a glance, and a suspicion lurks in the reader's mind that Roderick is not the rightful heir of Thorsghyll. As an evidence of the peculiar characters of the chief heroes and heroines, and also as a happy specimen of Mrs. Bird's vivacious and interesting style—let us quote some passages on the arrival from abroad of Mr. Thorsghyll's wandering brother Felix. Mr. Thorsghyll, we must premise, is devoted to his wife and anxious to hear his brother's opinions of her attractions— " Stand here for a few minutes," said Mr. Thorburn, when they reached the door of the ball-room, "and see if you recognise any old friends, or if they recognise you." This was a little artifice on his: part to entrap his brother's admiration for the beautiful Eugenie before he knew who she was. " Aye, aye," said Felix, musingly, " there is a good sprinkling of the old familiar faces, less changed than might be expected by half a score of years ; and there are many others who may well be the children that I knew in former times." Soon comes the desired recognition— " And oh ! Tell me, John ! Tell me ! Who is that dash ing, splashing, fine, thundering three-decker of a woman with the bare back ?" " She dresses too low, certainly, for English tastes ; but being a Frenchwoman, she must be excused for following the fashions of her country. That is my wife." " The devil !" exclaimed Felix, looking inexpressibly shocked. "Your admiration was rather roughly expressed, cer tainly," said Mr. Thorburn, quite misinterpreting his brother's feelings, "but it was genuine ; and we must ex cuse some roughness in a backwoodsman. Come, I will introdUce you to her." The fair Eugenie's reception of her brother-in-law was so graceful, so frank, so caressing, that his first unfavour able impression was entirely obliterated in a few minutes, and he no longer wondered at what he had mentally called her husband's blind infatuation. She declined to continue dancing, that she might devote her whole attention to him. As soon as his name was buzzed about through the company, he naturally became the centre of attraction, but she made it seem as if this was all her own doing, and that it was solely by her patronage that be was suddenly elevated to the dignified position of the lion of the evening. With admirable tact she as sembled round him all those who, from rank, talent, or old acquaintance had a right to join the privileged circle; and he soon found himself drawn out by her skilful manage ment, he knew not by what mystic process, to relate his manifold adventures by flood and field, and to talk more in the course of one hour than, in the solitude of the primeval forests, he had talked in a year. "What the deuce is there in this woman ?" he said to himself, when a long speech from a prosy old gentleman gave him time for reflection. " She has certainly most wonderful powers of fascination ; yet I never knew a strong first impression deceive me, and that was not fa vourable to hor. I'll put her to the test." The test as to the deceitful character of the smooth spoken sister-in-law having justified his suspicions, Felix administers a passing rebuke by way of re venge : Again the talk fell upon distant lands, and Felix was giving a description of the semi-civilised inhabitants of some island that he had visited, lying far out in the Pacific. "And pray tell us," said Mrs. Thorburn, " what is de costume of de ladies ? We all take an interest in de fashion all over de world." " The dress of the ladies," repeated Felix thoughtfully, and surveying his sister-in-law from head to foot; "well, it is not unlike your own in shape, though the material is different. They wear some petticoats fastened round the waist, and leave the upper part of the body naked." " Do you mean to say dat I do dat ?" screamed Eugenie, trembling with rage, while little Miss Weston pressed her handkerchief to her mouth to smother a laugh, though she could not make up her mind to retreat and so forego the triumph she was enjoying. "Do you moan to say dat my dress is like dat ?—Dat I leave my—Oh, you shameful man ! I never was so insulte in my life !" " Nay, nay ; I mean no offence," said Felix, quietly ; "pray don't be angry about nothing. You asked me to describe the costume of the most modest race of women I ever met with ; and lam doing so to the best of my abi lity, by comparison with your own. If I have, as yousa,y, insulted you, you must make some allowance for me, be cause for the last ten years I have lived amongst a simple set of people, who had no two names for the same thing, though it might relate in one case to a semi-savage, and in another to a lady of fashion." The lady, however, has her revenge the next day, when Felix introduces his little foreign daughter. Mr. Thorsghyll is passing along the corridor when He was recalled by a succession of piercing shrieks, fol lowed by wild hysterical sobs and wailings in the voice of Eugenie, mingled with the cries and terrified screams of her children. At a bound he regained the boudoir. Near the opposite door stood Felix, holding Felicia firmly by the hand, and with an expression of concentrated rage upon his face that was terrible to behold. The slender figure of his child, in her plain dark dress, was in singular contrast to the little dedizened dolls that roared and scrambled about a large writhing mass of muslin that lay upon the sofa, emitting screams and a confusion of inco herent words, and upon which Felicia's eyes were fixed in calm astonishment. Priscilla, who had run in at the first shriek, just in time to catch the baby before it fell upon the floor, was rushing hither and thither, calling for doctors and restoratives, and adding to the confusion. "My love !My life What is it ?" cried Mr. Thorburn, raising his wife in his arms, and trying to obtain a sight of her face, which she pertinaciously kept hidden, first against the sofa pillow, and then against his shoulder. "Oh, my Eugenie he added, in a remorseful whisper, "It was not—it could not be—tell, my dearest, it was not anything that I said ?" " No—no—no," she gasped out, " but oh! it was so toughtless not to warn me! —lt was so unkind to de poor creature—but I can't help it !" What was unkind ? What can't you help ?" demanded her husband, in utter bewilderment. "Oh ! you should have tell me ! You should have warn me !" she sobbed, and here, having satisfied herself by a slight side glance that Felix was still present, her utterance became more distinct, " when you know I am so fright at black poople or monkey I —Oh ! you should have warn me she was black !" "Hush ! hush !" exclaimed Mr. Thorburn, almost indig nantly, "my brother is in the room. You are mistaken, Eugenie, she is not black. Look at her again. I tell you, you are mistaken." These scenes are enough to show the animated, and, at times satirical, manner in which Mrs. Bird en livens her narrative. We do not quite admire the prize-fighting propensities of the paragon, Master Tom, who polishes off six or eight combatants by fixing the hour of fighting immediately after dinner, and administering what he calls " a Scientific touch on the region of the bread-basket, learnedly called the epigastrium, when the first stage of digestion is progressing." With all his admiration for theprize ring, Master Tom is apparently ignorant of one of the first rules of the pugilist. Mabel is a very charm ing heroine, but Felicia rather repels our sympa thies. In a chapter entitled " Happy is the wooing that is not long in doing," Felicia, who has just been talking to her cousin Mabel about the folly of love and declaring that never will she yield to its influence, becomes in about ten minutes after engaged to a man whom she has never seen before, and who has only addressed a few words to her when irre vocable vows are interchanged ! The fate of Thorsghyll, which gives its name to the work, is very satisfactorily decided in the closing chapter, and the mystery is very carefully maintained till the right moment. The Story of the Great March. From the Diary of a Staff-officer. By Brevet-Major George Ward Nichols, Aide-de-Camp to General Sherman. With a Map and Illustrations. 1 Vol. pp. 288. Sampson Low. A very interesting narrative of General Sher man's Great March through Georgia, written by one well qualified for the task. " The remarkable features and events of the campaigns of Georgia and the Carolinas, visible to me," says the author, " during the whole of the Great March were noted daily in my journal, from that diary the story of the march is compiled." The volume is embellished with some very spirited illustrations. Mr. George Dundas (Lieut.-Governor of Prince Edward's Island) and Mr. Geo. Solomon (Jamaica) seve rally had an interview yesterday with the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, at the Colonial-office. einal -..,:(41.V7 tinny HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, Wednesday. His Royal Highness Prince Arthur arrived at the Castle on Monday evening, and left this morning for Greenwich Park, attended by Major Elphinstone. Count and Countess Gleichen also arrived, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and royal family. The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High nesses the Crown Princess of Prussia and Princess Louis of Hesse, drove in the grounds this morning. Her. Royal Highness Princess Beatrice also drove out. Yesterday afternoon, in celebration of the birth day of her Royal Highness the Crown Princess of Prussia (Princess Royal), Messrs. Carpenter and Westley had the honour of exhibiting their phan tasmagoria and dissolving views before the royal children at Windsor Castle and a party of children who were honoured with invitations. The Crown Princess and Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, with their children, Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold,. and Princess Beatrice were present. In the evening, by her Majesty's command, and by the Crown Princess's especial wish, the princess's birthday was celebrated by an entertainment given in St. George's Hall to the whole of the servants of the royal household at Windsor, when Col. Stodare, from the Egyptian Hall, went through his perform ance of magic and ventriloquism. Soon after half-past nine o'clock her Majesty, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia, Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess Bea trice, entered the ball and witnessed a portion of the performance. Her Majesty then, with the royal family, went to the White Drawing-room, where were assembled the Prussian Ambassador and Countess Bernstorff, the Rev. Lord and Lady Wriothesley and Miss Russell, Major-General the Hon. A. and Lady Mary Hood and Miss Hood, Major-General and Lady Emily Seymour, Mr. and Mrs. Erskine, &c., with the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting on her Majesty and the royal family, the Dean of Windsor and the Hon. Mrs. Wellesley, the Hon. Lady Bid dulph, the Hon. Mrs. Ponsonby, Sir James Clark, Mr. Sahl, and Mr. Woodward. After her Majesty had retired, the private band played in the Red Drawing-room before the royal family and the party assembled. The Prince and Princess of Wales. LONG MELFORD, Wednesday. The festivities of last evening passed off very well, although the efforts made by the Melfordians to display their jubilant loyalty were somewhat marred by a few passing showers. The company invited to the ball began to arrive about 9 o'clock, and about 10 dancing was commenced ; Lord Alfred Paget opening the ball with the Princess of Wales, while the Prince selected for his first partner Lady Alfred Paget. The princess afterwards danced with Lord Suffield, Lord Proby, &c. ; and the prince showed his usual devotion to the pleasures of the ball-room, which on this occasion were pro longed till about three in the morning. The princess wore a white tulle dress with coloured tunique, a diamond necklace and diamonds in her hair. The prince wore the insignia of the Order of the Garter. The arrangements made for the ball proved highly successful. Lady Georgiana Rebow, one of the invited guests, was, we believe, unable to attend from indisposition. Win terben's band from Colchester was in attendance. There was no stated programme, but the dances were selected at the pleasure of the royal visitors. This morning the decorations in Melford-street, and on the houses on either side were still displayed, and the excitement of the population appealed to have scarcely subsided to a sufficient extent to en able many of them to resume their ordinary voca tions. The weather was very threatening early in the morning, and there were one or two heavy showers of rain, accompanied by a strong W.S.W. wind. As the day advanced, however, some im provement took, place, and, although the ground was very wet and heavy, the air was soft and balmy. The prince, accompanied by his noble host, Lord Suffield, Lord Proby, Viscount Hinchingbroke, Major-General Lord George Paget, Mr. B. Paget, and Major Teesdale, went out shooting in Spel thorne-wood, shortly before noon, and did not re turn till late in the evening. There being a good supply of game, the distinguished party enjoyed some very fair sport. As stated yesterday, Lineage wood is also set down for attack, and the prince and party will shoot in it to-morrow. It is expected that the visit of the prince and princess to Melford will be prolonged till Friday. They will return to Sandringham via Cambridge, following the same route as that by which they reached Melford ; as, however, the line from Sud bury to Shelford (at which point a junction is effected with the Cambridge main line of the Great Eastern system) is only a single one, their royal highnesses will probably travel by an ordinary train An impression has prevailed in the district that the new Shelford and Sudbury line has not yet become sufficiently. consolidated ; but this statement is offi cially contradicted, and it is affirmed that the per manent way is in a satisfactory state. Certainly the punctuality with which the prince and princess were conveyed from Wolferton to Melford yester day, notwithstanding the pressure of an unusually heavy traffic, was creditable to the Great Eastern management. The prince and princess will be escorted to the station on Friday, as yesterday they were escorted from it, by the Long Melford troop of Yeomanry Cavalry. Melford may fairly be said to be one of the most picturesque villages in Suffolk, and the Hall is a fine old mansion situate at the extremity of the extensive village-green on the Bury Sb• Edmund's side. It is a very short distance from the road, although it is separated from it by a high wall. It was formerly the seat of Sir Hyde Parker, from whom it passed to its present owner, Sir W. Parker, who, however, has never occupied it, pre ferring a residence of more modest pretensions in the immediate vicinity. The apartments set apart for the use of the royal guests were a suite of roans on the north side, embracing the saloon, one of the most beautiful apartments in the mansion. The last scion of the House of Brunswick who honoured Melford with his presence was the Duke of York, who visited it about 40 years since. As, however, was stated yesterday, the apartment now being used as a dressing-room by the prince was occupied by Queen Elizabeth in the course of the sixteenth cen tury. In the long intervening years wonderful haf e been the changes which have swept over the face of England, but Melford Hall still rears its venerable front, 'immutable among all surrounding mutations. The park is one of great extent and beauty. mournful interest attaches to it just now, as dariVg the present autumn it has been the scene of perhaP s the greatest havoc yet committed by the mysterious cattle plague in any part of Suffolk. We observed yesterday that it was impossible to reproduce all the efforts made by the Melfordiae s to express their loyal feelings. Some of them eve n , soared into the regions of rhyme, the landlord 01 the Bull hotel displaying the following cheering sentiment : " Prosperity to the royal pair, Denmark's pride and England's heir." Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princ es Louis of Hesse did not leave Windsor for the C ontineu a v yesterday, as intended, in consequence of the gale of NO' then blowing. Should the weather moderate their roY 6 highnesses will embark to-day. The Duke of St. Albans has left the Clarend°ll Hotel for Grimsby. The Duke and Duchess of Buckingham are,e,,ll: tertaining a select party at Stowe, the ancient seat of `--- Chandos family in Buckinghamshire. We understand that a marriage is a rrange d t° „d Ariss take place between the Marquis of Queensberli Sibyl Montgomery, daughter of Mr. Alfred gontg°.-- and granddaughter of Lord LeconAeld.