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..N.0 4 600 - cvzs. 11 . a-N 4'4444 [HOUSES.—Messrs. TOPLIS and ROBERTS have numerous furnished and unfurnishe.l TOWN, suburban, aid Country REbIDENC,'ES to Ltt.T or SEL exact L. Particulars forwarded for three stamps, upon stating requirements i.nd rental. offices, 2, Louduit-street, Regent street, auci South Kensington, facing the Muaeum. KENSIN GT ON, HYDE-PARK, Queen's, and Rutland Gates, Queen's -gate and Peters ham Terraces, Queen's -gate, Cornw,r.:l, and Princes Gardens, Elvaston-place, Cromwell-road, On slow and T h urloe Squares, Boltons. &c. Messrs TOPLI' and HOBE ItTS Mae ktE sI DEN CES to SELL and LET in these and surrounding; localities. Offices, 2, Conduit-street, Regent-street, and South Krnsington, facing the Museum. LIFEBOAT S,ERVICES.--During the storms of the past year the National I iteb4at Institution, by its ifeboats and oiler means, contributed to the savin of ;U7 persons from gifierent wrecks en out coasts. The insti tution also expended .C 21,374 in the same perid ou its itte boat iF tablislime.its, in addition to granti.niz £1,930 for re wards for raving die and exerzising tue tilebuats. The Committee of the liititution eArlicsily A i'PEAL to the ; üblic for ASSISTANCE to enable them to meet the Continued heLvy deniands on the Institution's 150 lifeboat st.tions. Co..tributions are received by the London and country bankers ; and by the et.iletary, nieltard hbq., at the Institution, 14, J o h n -street, Adelphi, Lou R OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GAILDEN. (Opera Company, Limited.) THIS EVENING (Wednesday), Mr. Charles Dtffelli's new opera, in one act, CHRISTMAS 14,VE. Madame F. Lancia, Madame E. Heywood ; Mr. A. Cook, and Mr. D, Miranda. Conductor, Mr. Allred Mellon. After which. at 8, the grand comic, skeetacular, and ope ratic Christ mas Pan , omime, entitled ALADDIN AND THE WONDERFUL LAMP; or, Harlequin and the Flying Palace. (See other advertisements). Commence at 7 o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, DRLTRY-LANE.- Managers, Messrs. E. Falooner and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, the Farce of HUSBANDS, BEWARE. Mr. G. Belmore, Miss Hazlewood. &c. After which, the Pantomime, LITTLE KING PIPPIN; or, Harlequin Fortunatus and the Magic Purse and Wishing Cap. Messrs. G. Belmore, H. Drayton, G. Weston. Master Percy ltoselli ; Misses Hazlewood, A. Thomson, E. Falconer, Pantomimists, Messrs. H. Bolen°, C. Lauri, CormacK, Saville, 3iisa Morgan, and Madame Boleno. Commence at 7. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, BROTHER SAM : Messrs. Sothern, Buckstone, Compton; Mesdames Nelly Moore, Snowden, ac. To be followed by ORPHEUS IN THE HAYMARKET, Messrs. W. Farren, Fisher, Bartleman, Weathersby, &c. ; Mesdames Keeley, Snowden, Moore, Lindley, Woolgar, Howard, Wright, Coleman, Lovell, Prey , &c. To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM TREATRE.- Under the sole Management (.4 Mr. Fechter. THIS EVENING, THE ILLUSTRIOUS STRANGER. 111 r. li. Widdicomb. After a filch, THE MASTER OF RAVENSWOOD. Mr. Fechter ; Messrs. Jordan, Emery, Widdicomt, Vezin, J. H. Fitzpatrick, D. Evans ; liesdamesTernan, Elsworthy, Lavenu, and C. Leclercq. Box Office open daily from Eleven till Five. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, at Seven, a new farce called AIETIIND This:. Messrs. J. L. Toole, IL Phillips, Eburne. C. J. Staab: Miss A. seaman, &e. After which, at 8, RIP VAN WINKLE. Rip (his 110th appearance), .31r. Jefferson, supported by Messrs. lii y. Bedford, It Phillips, Icelix Itogt.rs, Ashley, Eburne, C. J. Smith; Mrs. Bilfingtor, &c. To conclude with THE STEEPLECHASE. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Ashley; Miss K. Kelly, &o. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lesaee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, QUIET LODGINGS. After whkh, at a quarter to Eight, IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO 31END. t_liaracters by Messrs. Vining, T. Mel ville, T. _Bead, D. Murray, S. Calhaem, F. Villiers, J. G. Shore, G. Murray, 11. Melion, C. Seytun, R. Cathcart; Miss L. Moore and Miss Katberine Rodgers. ROYAL S 1 RAND THEATRE. bole Lessee and Manageress, Sirs. bwanborough. ... - THIS EVENING, at 7 (3rd time), NELLIE'S TRIALS. Messrs. Parselle, Belford, Price: Misse, Swanborough and Rance. After which will be produced a new Opera Burlesque, L'AFRICAINE ; or, The Queen of the Canuibil Islan .s. Messrs. Stoyle, James, Thorne; Mesdames Swanborough, Raynham, Johnstone, ar.o. To conclude with TURN HIM OUT. THE LAST EDITION OF " THE SUN," j. Containing the Latent fan be had Every Evening of G. It. GLENIE, News AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace. Hyde-park. THE LATEST EDITION of "'TIE SUN" supplied, as soon as published every Evenin:. , , by W. ALEXANDEK (late 131{.001i6), Newspaper Agent, zl, Did Cavendish- 4 treet, Oxford-street. THE LAST EDITION of " TIIE SUET" supplied as •oon as Published, containing all the LATEST iii W i ant SPORTLNU I..NTELLI(.IV.NUE, by IL W. 11.1.118.15, lie,%spaper Agent, 4, 13lacklriars-roaa, London, S. 71:11 -Ea LA 'l' .1. 1101 , 31. ES begs to inform his friends, and the pubAio generally. that he supphes the LATEST EDITION 01 "THE SUN " as soon as published —No. 16, liampalead road, N.W. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tats DAY.—Merning, Bh. 15m.—Afternoon, Bh. 46m. TO-MORROw.-Morning, 9h. 20m.—Afternoon, Oh. 53m. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 10, 186 G. -----,lp.- The Conservatives have put forwarder very for midable candidate for the borough of Tiverton, in the person of Sir JOHN HAY, who has started on his canvas with fair prospect of success. We should certainly be very glad to see the hon. baronet once more in the House, although it will be an evil day for the idlers and spendthrifts of the Admiralty when they see him there. Sir JOHN HAY has already done the country good service both afloat and ashore, and his strictures on the mismanagement so frequently lamentably perceptible in our naval affairs have often done effectual good. It is very awkward to deal with a censor who knows your business better than you do, and not less so in a Parliamentary skirmish than elsewhere. In concert with an efficient and independent colleague, Sir JAMES ELPHINSTONE, Sir JOHN HAY kept a sharp watch over official proceedings, and these two gen tlemen were mainly instrumental in carrying the reform in the dock arrangements at Malta. The Government refused to believe in the superiority of the French Creek, and, on the plea of some entangle ment with the Maltese Government, they were apparently determined to spend the public money in constructing an elaborate dock in the wrong place, in a position which was naturally inferior, and two miles from the scene of action. A naval officer having brought forward a motion respecting the Malta dock, Sir JOHN HAY and Sir JAMES ELPHINSTONE supported it strenuously, and finally the representations induced the Duke of SOMERSET to visit Malta himself during the summer holidays, when the true state of the case became immediately apparent, and the French Creek was selected for the dock. Again, with regard to Cap tain Cous's turret ships, which have of late years attracted so much attention. Sir J. HAY insisted that the system was entitled to a fair trial, though it was looked upon coldly at the Admiralty. In other matters connected with our naval administra tion he has stood boldly forward, being always on the side of economy and efficiency combined, neither favouring a lavish expenditure of public money on needless alterations, nor supporting a superficial e conomy, which only looks to the fact of paying out less money, without inqui r i ng whether the work be well done and the efficiency o f t h e service pro- I perly kept up. As a naval reformer, then, Sir Joux HAN . has a good claim on the suffrages of Tiverton, or, i n d eed, of any borough in which there are taxpayers who contribute to the millions expended annually on our armaments, men of common sense who object to seeing money lavishly spent on what is, after all, not well done, and Englishmen who pride them selves on the naval power and influence of their country. On general politics Sir JOHN HAY gave his opinions freely and straightforwardly enough. He is not a very hearty Reformer, although he ap proves of the lodger franchise as wise and prudent, observing very justly that there are numbers of per sons of intelligence ad means living in clubs and lodgings who Are now Premted from exerciiiing an undoubted right. But of the great masses slowly struggling up to political standing, the thousands who take a keen interest in public affairs, and whose well-being is closely affected by legisla tion, who are chafing under a sense of injustice which no wise statesman will foster—of these Sir JOHN evidently thinks but little. It is not perhaps fair to look to a member of the naval or mili tary professions for advanced views in this respect. It is natural to officers who have been long in command to look first to discipline and subordination, to regard, in deed, the welfare and comfort of those beneath them as an imperative duty, but to treat them politically as children, whose affairs can be better managed for them than they can manage them for I themselves. But the strictest and most watchful parent finds it necessary to relax his vigilance as his son grows to manhood, and to allow him free action even at the cost of buying his own experience, lest, by attempting to rein him in too long, he drive him to throw off restraint altogether, and effect the ruin of both. It is in this spiritthat temperate men of all parties unite in admitting the - necessity for a con siderable extension of the franchise, satisfied that the time has now come when the intelligent and educated members of the working classes may fairly claim the right to judge for themselves, at least so far as to elect a representative of their opinions. In Tiverton itself Sir JOHN HAY was not likely to meet with many dissentients when he opposed the scheme for disfranchising the small constituencies, for Tiverton would not be likely to escape the gene ral doom if it returned two Conservatives. On the subject of national education, Sir JOHN HAY spoke strongly, and commented upon the con dition of the uneducated classes as so great an evil that, to a certain extent, he was inclined to advocate compulsory education as practised abroad. Much as he desired economy, he could not, he said, support the theory that the sum which we spent annually on education should not be allowed to increase. "We were spending," he said, "no less than £25,000,000 a-year on our army and naval defences. Surely, then, a bare million a-year was far too little to spend on so important a matter as education." Pass ing from the moral to the physical condition of the country, Sir JOHN strenuously supported sani tary reform ; and, alluding to the threatened visitation of the cholera, he expressed his con viction that it was the duty of Parliament to urge forward active measures for the cleanliness and improvement of the towns for the repression of the disease. The Home Office should, he thought, urge upon the various metropolitan bodies the necessity of promptitude and vigilance, so that London might, if possible, be prevented from becoming the head quarters of cholera. We hope that the hon. baronet, if he succeeds in obtaining his seat, will press this important matter upon the attention of the Govern ment, since epidemics do not proceed with the lei surely routine fashionable in Circumlocution offices. If not much of a reformer, so far as the representa tive system is concerned, Sir JOHN HAY is a genuine and consistent reformer of abuses which come within his ken, and as such we wish him good speed in his canvassing, and hope he will have an oppor tunity of renewing his practical and well-directed labours towards securing the efficiency of our naval administration. Mr. JOT'S FOWLER delivered an inaugural address on assuming the chair of ;he Institution of Civil Engineers, which was both instructive and interest ing. The President appropriately commenced by referring to the great and growing importance of the profession, which naturally called for increased zeal and efficiency. The chief incentive in the eyes of many will be the fact, here mentioned, of the nni - inng ara malriner and also the States of the New World, in the de partment of engineering. Much has been done, but much more is called for by the growing requirements of commerce and society. "We have ship canals,' says the Professor, " but the Suez Canal threw them all into the shade ; we have long tun nels through English mountains, but we have none to penetrate the Alps ; we have noble ports, but they are choked with trade, and new accommoda tion of an improved kind is called for." The uni versal extension of telegraphic communication will also be rendered necessary, and therefore there is every reason for the new President to declare that it will take time and thought to effect these schemes and perfect these plans. A stroke of genius, or a sudden happy thought, can never achieve such stupendous results as these stretched before us. In order to attain these desirable ends it is absolutely imperative that there should be special efforts made, and that a combination should take place between sound judgment and true engineering principles. Very true was the remark made by the Presi- dent, that this age has witnessed the fact of " Civil Engineering becoming a distinct and recognised profession." Before this century many clever men had appeared at intervals, but at the same time only isolated and apart, and the subject did not engross and occupy so much time and notice. It has now, to use the earnest and expressive words here met with, " assumed at once the position of an art of the highest order, and perhaps without extravagance it might lay claim to the title of a true science." Those who are partially ignorant of the matter will, doubtless, be annoyed, upon perusing this speech, to find how numerous and varied are the tasks en trusted to the Civil Engineer. They are aptly summarised here, and speak volumes as to the care and skill required in the training of those who are to serve in the ranks of this profession. It is of great consequence that young engineers should per fect themselves in all departments, in order that they may be prepared to meet any emergencies that may arise, and only thus can they hope or expect to obtain success in their careers and to do credit to themselves and their profession. The Professor, in the course of his speech, hinted at the kind of pre paration which was most required, and such he enumerated as, first, general instruction and a libe ral education ; next, special education ; third, tech nical knowledge ; and, fourthly, preparation for conducting practical works. This address may be confidently recommended to the notice of all those who are concerned intimately in this subject, and to those to whom it was specially delivered it was most valuable advice, and contained useful hints. Yesterday the committee formed in the City of London for the administration of the fund sub scribed for the relief of the Lancashire operatives at the period of the cotton famine met at the Mansion House for the purpose of winding up and disposing of the surplus money. This committee was first put in motion in 1862, and has, therefore, lasted over three successive mayoralties, extending into a fourth. Since the period of its formation the sums subscribed have been very considerable, and the total amount was £.528,720; - It is very satisfac tory in perusing this statement to reflect upon the great liberality displayed towards the distressed districts. A large proportion of the sums sub scribed came from abroad ; all the quarters of the world contributed to the aggregate. The corre spondence requisite necessitated many thousand letters, for wherever Englishmen were assembled they were eager and ready to send t 1 err tribute of sympathy and their offering to those in need. Not I only from those parts where large numbers congre gated did the contributions come, but from almost every place where " half-a-dozen Englishmen ap peared to be located together, from municipalities, chambers of commerce, regiments, ships, single in dividuals, and several settlements in the Backwoods." It is also satisfactory to add that from time to time the accounts of the funds were gratuitously audited by the eminent public accountants, Messrs. COLE MAN, TURQUAND, YOUNGS, and Co., and also that the vast quantities of clothing, blankets, and flannel contributed during the first winter of the distress were gratuitously forwarded to their destinations in the North by the two great Northern railways. " Thus," said the Secretary, in concluding his re port, "by the great liberality of the public, and the self-imposed labours of the committee, upwards of half a million of money, and a vast quantity of clothing and blankets, had from first to last been remitted to the distressed cotton districts." This is certainly a gratifying termination to the labours of the committee, and they may rejoice to reflect upon the great good which they have done in rendering the liberality of the public conducive to the relief and the preservation of those in distress. The next subject considered was how to dispose of the surplus at the bankers, which was £9,600. Mr. W. MORLEY called attention to the wretched condition of the dwellings of the poor in the City of London, whieh he rightly called a disgrace to a Christian land, and he moved that the surplus be transferred to the Lord Mayor for the time being, as a nucleus of a much larger fund that might hereafter be collected for the erection of better houses for the working classes in the City. He added that the Corporation would contribute, in all probability, one hundred thousand pounds towards such a fund, if they were once certain that the money would be properly expended. Mr. LEGGETT declared that they had no right to divert any por tion of a fund placed in their hands for a "special purpose ;" but, if they had any such right, it would be better to expend the balance in reinstating the "thousands in Lancashire in furniture, bed ding, and clothes, which they were obliged to part with during the pressure of their distress." The Chairman of the Commit tee and the majority of it were strongly of opinion that, as trustees, they had no right to dispose of the sum subscribed for a great emergency in any other way, and therefore it was resolved that the surplus be funded for the present, and its disposal left as a matter for future consideration under " proper legal advice." This appears to be a deci sion much to be regretted, and surely no tenable argument can be adduced against the plan of de voting the surplus to the reinstating of the opera tives of Lancashire, because the money was actually intended for the relief of the inhabitants of that district and they still feel the effects of the fearful ordeal through which they passed. The fact is that people may make great mistakes if they try to be too exact, and it is quite po'ssible to err on the safe side as well as on the rash one. In Liverpool the death rate is very high, and too much time and money cannot be expended in improving the dwell ings of the working classes. The common sense and good feeling of the Committee are far more likely to suggest appropriate modes for the distri bution of the balance in hand than any legal authorities will do, for in abiding by the letter of the law they will be very apt to lose sight of the spirit which animated the donors. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FP.031 OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Tuesday Evening. Although the latest despatches and official com- exists there and " order reigns" in that capital, a very uneasy sensation prevails in Paris, which, of course, :influences the transactions at the Bourse. People reflect that even if the insurrection be put down, Madrid is in a state of siege, and Saragossa also ; a fact which is not very tranquillising. The private letters from Madrid state that the clubs are closed, the cafes are shut up at a much earlier hour than usual, and altogether the city appears to be under a sort of regime of terror. The police make domiciliary visits, and there is every indication that the Government is not quite satisfied with the .aspect of affairs. There is another significant in dication in the circumstance that the censorship has been at work, as there are blanks in some of the papers. These blanks, perhaps, could have been filled up with sinister news. It is also remarked that, in spite of the alleged cessation of the insurrection, the authorities of several towns—Villarejo, Zanora, and Valladolid —have thought it necessary to transmit various despatches to the Cabinet at Madrid, giving details of various movements of the rebels. These des patches are reproduced in the Moniteur this morn ing, and, although they do not contain any fact of importance, their republication in the Moniteur leads to the belief that the French Government seems to think that there is something serious in the movement. According to one account the insurgents were marching towards the frontiers of Portugal. The illoniteur states that Count Walewski and the Duke de Mouchy have been appointed members of the commission charged with the direction of the Universal Exhibition of 1867. Much progress has been made in railway com munication in Italy. The line between Rome and Poligny has just been opened, and in three or four months there will be a direct communication be tween Rome and Ancona. Besides the direct line from Ancona to Rome, there will be a branch line from Rome to Florence by the line across the Ap penines to Ficulla. Another branch line has been commenced from Leghorn to Rome. There is al ready a railway between Rome and Naples. An eminent historian and writer on democracy, M. Dargaud, died yesterday. He was the author of a well-known work on " Religious Liberty ;" and his last production, " The History of Queen Elizabeth of England," has been read by everybody here. " The History of Mary Stuart," so pathetic and so exciting, immediately insured him great lite rary reputation. His remains were followed to Montmartre by " troops of friends," among whom were many men of note. A well-known dramatic author, M. Frederic Voisin, is also dead. He wrote several vaudevilles, amongst them " Les Amours d'Ete," in conjunction with M. A. Polo, and also founded a satirical jour nal, Le Sans Gene, which, however, had but a short existence. The Gazette de Cologne states that Count d'Eulen burg, who, it will be recollected, a short time ago, was condemned to imprisonment for four months for having occasioned the death of Prince Alfred's cook, has been sent to the fortress of Ehrenbreit stein to undergo his punishment. A double suicide has taken place in the Rue Malakoff. A coachman and his wife, who were in great distress, and were unable to pay their rent, were found suffocated from charcoal, with which they filled the stove, after having closed the door and wnidows, so that no fresh air was admitted. An interesting report has just been published by M. Devine, President of the Municipal Council of Paris, explaining the state of the finances generally, and noticing the amount expended upon new con structions and improvements. It appears that new streets have been made or old ones widened or levelled to the length of 82 kilometres, and those projected are to the extent of 22 kilometres—a kilo metre is 1,000 yards. Within a few years a vast number of beautiful avenues and boulevards have been formed. Twelve bridges have either been constructed, re-constructed, or beautified, viz. : The Ponts Napoleon, De Berry, d'Austerlitz, Louis Philippe, St. Lott* d'Axcole, St, Michel, On , THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JAMIARY 10, lE€6. 'Change, De Solferino, des Invalides, de l'Alma, du Point du Jour. The bridge at Berry is entirely. new. It is very handsome, and affords a communi cation with the other side of the river, which was long much wanted. The new bridge of Point du Jour at Autenil has been only finished a few months. Its architectural features are much admired. This bridge will form a portion of the Circular Railway, communicating with Autenil and the other aide of the river. This circular railway will be en tirely completed by the time of the opening of the International Exhibition. Sewers have been corn pleted to the extent of 260 kilometres. Pipes for the conduct of water have been augmented to the extent of 575 kilometres. A great improvement in the supply of water to Paris has been effected by effecting a junction with the Seine and the river Dhuys, near St. Omer. The water of the Dhuys has been analysed, and is announced to be pecu liarly salubrious. The Seine water was formerly sup posed to be unwholesome, at least for those unac customed to drink, but the most favourable reports have recently been given by scientific men upon the mixed water of the Seine and the Dhuys. The aqueduct of the Dhuys is 131 kilometres long. The quantity of water daily distributed in Paris, which in 1852 was only 72,000, will soon amount to 400,000, when the aqueduct is completed for an in creased supply from the sources of the valley of the Vanne. No less than 171 municipal edifices have been built since 1852. According to an official table the present super fice of Paris is traversed by 1,898 streets and 127 highways. A new census of the population is in process of being taken, which will show, as far as can be ascertained, that the number of the inhabi tants of Paris is about 1,800,000. Reckoning the suburbs which have been annexed to the city, the population will be augmented by 250,000. A strange recovery of a bank note of I,ooof. has been elicited by the Tribunal of Correctional Police. Mdlle. Alphonsine Pelletier is a young girl, with jet black hair and dark piercing eyes in short, very handsome, but frail. She often received the visits of a cattle dealer who had plenty of money. On one occasion when he passed the night with the young lady, according to the statement he made to the Court, he had three I,ooof. notes in his purse. Being very tired, and wishing to have no uneasiness about his money, he placed his money under the mattress. He had no mistrust of the young lady, he said, but it was as well to take precautions. In the morning, when he went to pay for some sheep, two of the bank notes were much torn, or appeared as if bitten, of the third only a little corner remained. With little delay the cattle dealer repaired to the lady and asked for an explanation. She, it appears, readily adopted the hint of the notes having been bitten by rats, and said that of late the mattress had been infested with them. The gentle man was satisfied, and went to the bank. The two torn notes were replaced by others, but he was told that the bank could only give I,ooof. for the corner of the note when he found the other portion of it. The complainant, with much quaintness, proceeded to say that this satisfied him at the time. He went into mourning for the loss of his I,ooof. note, and thought no more about it, but happening a day or two ago to pay a visit to the locality where thG lady resided, he heard, by chance, that about the time when he supposed that the rats had eaten the better half of his I,ooof. note his fair friend was flush of money, and had refreshed her toilette very con siderably. He gave information to the police. The result was that the rest of the note was traced. The rats had not eaten it, but it had been appro priated by the lady. For this appropriation the court sentenced her to be imprisoned for six months. The Last Seven Years' Averages —Tithe Commutation. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—As many of your readers may feel anxious to know the result of the corn averages for the seven years to Christmas, 1865, published by authority in the London Gazette of this evening, viz. : Wheat ss. 111 per imperial bushel. Barley 4B. 2± ~ Oats . , _,, ..- ~4-,+n frvr their infrwinnfinn that the valve of each £lOO of tithe rent charge will for the year 1866 amount to £97 7s. 91d. It appears from the following statement from my " Annual Tithe Commutation Tables " that the lowest average value of £lOO of tithe rent charge during the 30 years which have elapsed since the passing of the Tithe Commutation Act was in the year 1855, viz., £B9 15s. 84d. ; and that from that time up to the year 1861 the average gradually in creased £22 7s. Bd., or about 3t per cent. per annum, up to £ll2 3s. 1.1 d., or the highest value during the whole period. From 1861 the septen nial average value has been gradually receding in a similar ratio. For tho Year Xs. d. For the Year £s. d. 1837 1838 97 7 11 1853 ...... 91 13 54 1839 95 7 9 1854 9O 19 5 1840 9B 15 91 1855 1841 lO2 12 51,- 8/ 1 856 1842 lO5 82f 1857 1843 lO5 12 2} 1858 ...... 105 16 3£ 1844 lO4 3 5 1 4 185 9 1845 lO3 17 llf, 1860 1846 102 17 81 1861 ...... 112 3 4' 4 ;- 1847 1848 lO2 1 0 1863 1849 lOO 3if 1864 lO3 3 10f 1850 9B 16 10 1865 ...... 98 15 101- 1851 96 11 41 1866 80 Years £3,026 9 44 General Average for 30 Years £loo 17 71 I am, Sir, yours, &c., CHARLES M. WILLICH, Late Actuary, University Life Assurance Society. 2, Montpelier-square, Rutland-gate, Jan. 9. THE ART JOURNAL FOR JANUARY inaugurates this New Year of grace, 1866, in a manner worthy of its reputation. The two principal embellishments are exquisitely beautiful—the one, Thomas Faed's charming Scottish interior, " The Mitherless Bairn" —the other, Monti's lovely " Sleep of Sorrow and Dream of Joy." There is yet a third singularly graceful engraving —illustrative of one of the great Sir Walter's heroines, a sketch from the Waverley Portrait Gallery, sweet Phoebe Mayflower, from " Woodstock." Without any disparagement to either Mr. Hamerton's Liber Memorialis, or Mr. Ruskin's Cestus of Aglaia, the palm is still borne off, among all the literary contributions to the Art Journal, by its accomplished and indefatigable Editor, Mr. S. C. Hall, who this month con tributes another of his attractive series of biographical Recollections, entitled, " Memories of the Authors of the Age ; or, Written Por traits (from Personal Acquaintance) of Great Men and Women of the Epoch"—a delightful paper on Robert Southey, some time Poet Laureate, and in a very peculiar and pre-eminent manner the Man-of-Letters of his generation. From this very agreeable paper, recording Mr. S. C. Hall's personal.recollections of Robert Southey, we extract the following anecdotal footnote : Southey indulged, at times, in mild and gentle satire, such as left no festering wound. In Mrs. Hall's album he wrote the following. I must premise that the autographs of Joseph Buonaparte and Daniel O'Connell occupied the "opposite page." On the same page are the autographs of Amelia Opie and Maria Edgeworth : " Birds of a feather flock together, But vide the opposite page, And thence you may gather I'm not of a feather With some of the birds in this cage. " ROBERT SOUTHEY, 22d October, 1836." Some years afterwards Charles Dickens, good-humour edly referring to Southey's change of opinion, wrote in the album, immediately under Southey's lines, the following:-- " Now if I don't make The completest mistake That ever put man in a rage, This bird of two weathers Has moulted his feathers, And left them in some other cage. Mr. S. C. Hall's paper on Southey should be re ferred to in its entirety, however, precisely as it here appears in this January number of the Art Journal —a number giving the happiest augury for the ArtiJournal in the New Year. A Birmingham contemporary announced that the wire and principal materials for the new Atlantic cable are being manufactured in that town. The cable will be laid dont in the ceuree of the 011fillipg kwanatr. LA TEST INTELLIG-ENCF. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) - - AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE DAMASCUS. (Via Greencastle.) NEw Youx, Dec. 30, 2 p.m. The following are the heads of the news brought by the Damascus : It is semi-officially denied that General Schofield has any political mission in Europe. The New York Times states that the Mexican Cor respondence will be submitted to Congress immediately, and that Congress will be allowed to determine the policy of the Government upon the Mexican question. A rumour is current at Washington that France, Eng land, Spain, Italy, and Austria have formed an alliance to keep Maximilian on the throne. Intelligence from Vera Cruz to the 16th reports that the French havo reoccupied Chihuahua, and hold Piedras Negras. It is semi-officially denied that General Shofield has any political mission in Europe. The Australasian and City of Washington have arrived out. The rumour is again current at Washington that the French Government has assured the United States that the French will withdraw from Mexico, the Federal Go vernment giving an assurance that the United States would not interfere with the Emperor Maximilian's occupancy of the Mexican throne. It is stated that Senator Wilson has had an interview with President Johnson, jn which he informed him that the Radical Republican party disapproved his reconstruction policy, and would not support him if he interfered with Congressional legislation upon reconstruction. Mr. John son is represented to have expressed confidence in the pre sent and future success of his reconstruction policy, and refused to give any assurance that he would refrain from interference. General Strong, who has returned from Texas, reports fearful destitution amongst the black and white inhabi tants. Lawlessness and crime, as well as a spirit of seces sion and of hostility to the Government, prevails through out the interior. The Governor of North Carolina has assumed office, and assured Mr. Johnston of his hearty co-operation in re storing harmonious relations with the Federal Govern ment. The New York Times asserts that the correspondence with France regarding Mexico will be laid before Congress as soon as it assembles. It is represented that the cor respondence will show that the Government has at no time had any purpose or thought of abandoning the Munroe doctrine. It has pursued the course which seemed most likely to secure the practical establishment of that policy, and at the same time save the country from the expense of another war. The whole matter, concludes the New York Times, will now be submitted for Con gressional action, and if Congress sees fit to insist upon a more hasty solution of the problem at the cost of war, no obstacle will be placed in its way. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Money abundant. Gold 145. Exchange on London, 158} ; on Paris 3571. Stocks firm and advancing. New York Centrals, 964. Illinois, 1321. Erie, 96k. 5-20 Bonds, 1051. Cotton advancing. Middling Upland, 52. Flour, wheat, and corn dull. Provisions quiet. Coffee, sugar, and molasses steady. Petroleum dull. Crude, 40k. Refined, 62k. The advices by the Australasian have very favourably affected stocks. THE CANADIAN MINISTRY. QUEBEC, Dec. 29. Mr. Hoyland supersedes the Hon. George Brown as President of the Canadian Council. MEXICO. Advices received from Vera Cruz to the 16th inst., via Havannah, announce that 1,200 French troops arrived on the 6th, and were immediately sent into the field. The defences of the city on the land side were being strength ened, and heavier guns had been mounted on the Castle of San Juan Ulloa. The Imperialists had routed Escobedo at some distance from Monterey. Escobedo escaped with an escort of 20 men. The French had reoccupied Chihua hua, and held Piedras Negras. FRANCE. BOURSE, Jan. 9, Two o'clock.—The market has opened with a downward tendency. Threes, for Account, Italian Fives, and Credit Mobilier Shares exhibit a slight fall. Spanish Mobilier have an ad vance of 5f., and other Spanish Securities are equally well maintained. Saragossa Railway Shares have improved sf.—to -202 f., and Portuguese have the same advance—to 200 f. English Consols are tele graphed with a decline of I V per cent. Three o'clock. —The market has continued inactive, and closed as follows : 00 Do. end month — , Ottoman Fives 42 25 Mexican Loan Do. Bonds — Russian Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred 3 per Cents. 6B 321 Do. end month 6B 40 Credit Mobilier Do. end month 770 Bank Shares 3640 Credit Foncier 1320 Italian Loan 62 20 Do. end month 62 50 RAIL' Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern Western Eastern Sardinian . Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona Roman Acct. 850 - - ... 1127 50 852 50 552 50 550 528 75 202 50 415 426 25 178 75 ... 220 103 75 158 75 RUSSIA. The Invalide Russe publishes a long account of Russian proceedings in the province of Turkistan. Relying upon a report of the Governor of Orenburg, it maintains that all the measures taken in those regions of recent years have been necessarily brought about by the events which have occurred upon the Russian frontiers, and are most beneficial to the in habitants. In support of these statements the In valide quotes an address from the inhabitants of Taschkend to the Governor of Oldenburg, in which the citizens signing the document, while sub mitting the administration of their country to the commands of the Czar, request that the cognizance of the spiritual affairs of the coun try should be entrusted to the Kazy - Kalian, their present ecclesiastical chief, subject to no inter ference whatever, except that of a " mediator," to be appointed by the Russian Government ; they fur ther require that none of the inhabitants of Tasch kend should be enrolled in the army, or receive the name of Cossacks ; that they might be relieved from having troops quartered upon them ; they further ask that the same privileges should be extended to the inhabitants of Taschkend residing in other cities. The original document bears the names and seals of 58 of the principal inhabitants of Taschkend. The Invalide also publishes the following proclamation of General Kryjanovski to the inhabitants : " The Emperor of all the Russias, Alexander 11., my master, having appointed me commander in-chief of the county of Orenburg, has also placed under my. orders the newly-formed province of Turkistan, which is administered under my superior authority by the military governor of Turkistan. Inhabitants of Taschkend,—You know that for many years the troops and subjects of the Khans of Khokand attacked the Kirghiz subjected to Russia, pillaged peaceable caravans, and prevented pacific men from pursuing agriculture and commerce. My sovereign gave orders that the pillage of the Khoka nese should be stopped, and the brave Russian sol diers have promptly carried out their monarch's will. The Russian arms have vanquished in succession the fortresses of Turkistan, Aoulieta, Tchemkend, Niaz-bek, Tchinaz, and Taschkend ; all the other towns and fortresses will encounter the same fate if our enemies persist in their obstinacy. But, although the Russian Czar has taken compassion upon these countries and their poor inhabitants, although he has delivered them from the brigandage of Khokand, he does not seek new conquests, and has no need to acquire new ter ritories, for his Majesty already possesses more than any other monarch. It is in this sense his Majesty has given me orders with regard to Taschkend. In execution of the Imperial will, and taking into con sideration the state of affairs I now find in the city of Taschkend, I order as follows :—' The city of Taschkend, with the territory extending as far as the River Syr-Daria, shall form an independent State. I have desired the military governor of the province of Turkistan carefully to study the real wants of the State of Taschkend, taking as basis the indications I have given him, the first of which settles that the religion you profess is to re main inviolable in every point. The con clusions of the military governor will be submitted by me to the supreme sanction of the:Emperor. You will indeed be prosperous, inhabitants of Taschkend, if, by a peaceful life and complete obedience to the orders of the military governor, you prove yourselves worthy of the bounty of our sovereign, and if you know how to convert to your welfare the independ ence granted you. But wee unto those who abuse the benefits of the great Czar, or dare to attack the State of Taschkend, placed under the protection of the invincible Russian army. May the Almighty assist you for the general good in enjoying the favours lavished upon you by the magnanimous Sovereign of Russia ; may He aid you in establish ing upon the foundations of the new State a new existence of calm and lasting prosperity. " KRYJANOVSKI." THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. FALMOUTH, Jan. 9. The Diamond Company's steamer Albany, Ed ington commander, arrived here this evening from the Cape of Good Hope, having left Algoa Bay on the 3d of December ; Mossel Bay, sth ; Table Bay, 9th ; St. Helena, 17th ; and Madeira on the 4th inst., brings 11 bags of mails and the following pas sengers and cargo :—Mrs. Chitterton and child, Mr. and Mrs. Early and infant, Mrs. Niadorff, Mr. and Miss Limber, Miss Cooper, Colonel Travers, R.A., Messrs. A. P. Smithy, Fox, Jerrell, Mortem, Hor wood, Daley, Smith, and M. Bovet, first class ; and Mr. and Mrs. Trill, Messrs. Fitch, Barchell, Lorie, and Briggs, second class ; total, 24 ; 1,644 bales of wool, 352 bags sugar, 42 cases of arrow-root, 8 cases of ostrich feathers, 276 elephants' tusks, 80 rhinoceros' horns, 75 bullocks' horns, 158 bundles of hides, 3 bales of sheepskins, 6 bales of goatskins, 2 bales of Angola hair, 1 bale of cotton, 11 cases of muskets, 1 case of mantles, 5 bales of buchie leaves, 1 box of ivory, and 11 boxes sundries. Her Majesty's ship Valorous was in Table Bay, and the Spiteful in Funchal Bay. Trade had somewhat revived at Algoa Bay in consequence' of the favourable wool season. There had been continuous and destructive drought in many districts of the colony, and distress among the unemployed in Cape Town. The war between the Orange Free State and the Basutos continued in a desultory manner without any definite result, the British Government not in terfering. A conference had been held between the authorities and Tambookies, the latter being unwil ling to remove from the borders of the colony across the Kei, as proposed by the Governor. The Union Company's steamer Dane was wrecked, with entire loss of cargo, at Cape Recife, Algoa Bay, on the Ist of December ; passengers and crew saved. The coasting steamer Kadie and the bark Etheld rida, from Samarang, had been wrecked, as well as the bark Esterias, at Kowie Harbour. The Simla, from Bombay for Liverpool, was sighted on fire, supposed to be from spontaneous combustion of jute, in lat. 4 N. 20 W., by the Star of India, which vessel remained by her for some time, and took off her crew and transferred them off the Cape to a French brig bound to St. Helena, at which place they were landed on the 16th of De cember ; all well. The Commercial Treaty between England and Austria. The London Gazette of last night contains the Treaty of Commerce between her Majesty and the Emperor of Austria, and the Final Protocol signed at Vienna on Dec. 16, 1865 ; ratifications exchanged at Vienna on Jan. 4, 1866. The provisions of the Treaty have been already given ; the Final Protocol is as follows : Upon proceeding to the signature of the Treaty of Commerce concluded this day between Great Britain and Austria, the Plenipotentiaries of the two Powers made the following Declarations : I. The Plenipotentiaries of his Majesty the Em peror of Austria declared that in virtue of Article XIII. of the Treaty of Customs and Contributions Union of the 23rd December, 1863, between Austria and Liechtenstein, the Treaty of Commerce con cluded this day would apply equally to the Princi pality of Liechtenstein, and the British Plenipoten tiary accepted this declaration. 11. In order to avoid any future doubt as to the intention of Article 111., the Plenipotentiaries of the two Powers agreed to the following explanation : In the construction of a Tariff of specific duties by weight within fixed ad valorem rates, it is neces sary to determine what shall be the unit of value to which each specific duty shall be applied. In adopting the basis of value established by Article 111., it is understood that it is not intended to depart from the general principle of the Article, viz., the application of certain maximum ad valorem rates of duty to all articles of British produce and manufacture, but to guard against the necessity of making separate provision for every variety of each article, thereby creating minute and inconvenient subdivisions in the Tariff. With this view, it becomes necessary to group together those different qualities and descriptions of the same article or of similar articles which, from their approximation in value and general resem blance in character, it is found possible to include under one and the same denomination in one posi tion of the Tariff. But it is understood that in fixing the denomina tions in each position of the future Austrian tariff, they shall be so arranged that the duty affixed to any one position shall not exceed the " maximum" rates fixed by Article 111. of the Treaty upon the average value of any kind of goods of commercial importance included under any one denomination in such position, unless by common consent it is con sidered expedient or necessary. 111. With reference to article IV., the Plenipo tentiaries likewise agreed that if it shall be found that the prices of any kinds of goods have been es sentially disturbed by exceptional causes during the 12 months of the year 1865, the Commissioners of the two Governments shall endeavour to find such a basis of value as shall be considered to correspond to a fair average value for future yetirs. In the case of textile manufactures (the prices of which have been seriously deranged during the late war in the United States of America), it is agreed that if the average prices of the year 1865 be taken as the basis of value, either contracting party may claim a revision of such valuation after the Ist of January, 1868. IV. The British Plenipotentiary then declared that— Her Britannic Majesty engages to recommend to Parliament the abolition of the duties payable on the importation of wood -and timber in the United Kingdom, and also the reduction of the duties payable on wine in bottle to the amount of those payable on wine in wood upon importa tion into the United Kingdom. V. The Imperial Austrian Plenipotentiaries on their part declared that— The duty upon the export of rags from the States and possessions of his Imperial and Royal Majesty shall, from and after the Ist of July, 1866, be reduced to two florins the zollcentner and that— The duty upon the importation of salted herrings into the States and possessions of his Imperial and Royal Majesty shall, from the Ist 'of February, 1866, be reduced to 50 kreutzers per zollcentner, gross weight. In witness whereof the undersigned Plenipoten tiaries have drawn up the present protocol in du plicate form, to which, after it had been duly read, they affixed their signatures. Vienna, this 16th day of December, 1866. (LS.) BLOO3IFIELD. BERNHAUD BARON WULLERSTORF, C. Admiral. ALARMING FIRE AT MESSRS. WOOD'S TYPE FOUN DRY.—This morning, shortly after midnight, police constable No. 240 of the City force, in passing along his beat discovered smoke pouring out of the premises belong ing to Messrs. Wood, the typefounders, carrying on busi ness at 89, West Smithfield, City. After the fire engines arrived a splendid head of water was immediately obtained from the mains of the New River Company, and the fire men went to work, and happily succeeded in confining the flames to the second floor back workshop, but that part of the building and its contents was considerably burnt, but not to such an extent as to retard the business from being carried on se usual. • Urt yCiroLar HER MAJESTY• -~- OSBORNE, Tuesday. Her Majesty and Princess Louise walked in th e grounds in the morning, and in the afternoon her, Majesty drove ou t w ith P r i ncess B eatr i ce and Princess Hermann of Hohenlohe. Prince Arthur rode on horseback. Princess Leiningen arrived at Osborne, and diued with the Queen and royal family. The Prince and Princess of Wales, at Holkham. HOLKITA.3I, Tuesday In consequence of the recent death of the of the Belgians, the present visit of their Roy 3,, Highnesses the Prince an d P r i ncess o f "Wales . be, by his royal highness's command, strictly private, and the gaieties at the house will not be carried out to such an extent as they would have been' Not a little astonishment was occasioned yest er day among the country people who recognised th e heir to the throne riding on the railway engin e ' Besides his royal highness were the Hon. T. v; Grey, M.P. ; Captain Tyl er , C.E., o f th e B o ard Trade ; and Mr. J. S. Valentine, C.E. The obje ct of the prince was to see for himself the state of th e line and the nature of the works that have had t° be carried out, and it is understood that consider' able interest was manifested by his royal hien° in the various matters explained to him by Captaio Tyler and Mr. Valentine. The guests staying at the hall comprise the Duk e and Duchess of Roxburghe, the Marquis of Bow' mont, Earl and C oun t ess S pencer, t h e Coun t e ss 4) ', Dunmore, the E ar l o f Dunmore, Viscount and Viscountess Powerscourt, Lord and Lady Suffiel d ' Viscount Hamilton, M.P., Hon. T. De Grey, M. l' _ l 4 Hon. Edward and M rs . C o k e, Li eutenant- G e ner4' Porter, Hon. Colonel Coke, Hon. Captain Elphil l " stone, Admiral Sir Henry Keppel, Captain Stephei r. son, Mr. J. Powell, and Mr. Edward Tredcroft. This morning his royal highness wen t o ut scl! the Earl of Leicester, and shot in the covers on the west side of the park. His Royal Highness the Count de Paris, IV II° arrived on Saturday at the Chief Secretary's Lodg' Dublin, from visiting Count and Countess de Tarnac , St. Thomas-town, on Monday left the Right E °9 ; Chichester Fortescue, M.P., and the Countess Fran ce Waldegrave's residence, for York House, Twickenhata• Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duoli e° d'Aumal e are expected to arrive on a visit to F ra nces Irelan d ' Countess W a ld egrave an d the Chief Secretary for on the 17th inst. ; and on the 19th the countess will gilre grand ball at the Chief Secretary's Lodge. gt The Duke and Duche ss o f S omerse t arr ived the Admiralty, Whitehall, on Monday evening, from Stover Park, their seat in Devonshire. Lord and Lady Londesborough arrived at the' new residence in Grosvenor-square on Monday evening' from Grimston, near Tadcaster. Lord Overstone is entertaining a shooting P at Overstone Park, Northamptonshire. The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Excheg gef arrived in town yesterday from Haward en C as tl e . Mr. and Lady Charlotte Schreiber have left Lang . ham House for Cheltenham. DEATH OF THE EARL OF LIMERICS.—We b to record the death of the Earl of Limerick, which tool place on Friday l as t, ra th er su dd en l y , f rom an a ttack ( i ) 0 bronchitis. The deceased earl had not mixed much society of late years. DEATH OF THE DOWAGER LADY CHURCHIL L/ The venerable Dowager Lady Churchill died o il Suuday at the Ranger's Lodge, near Charlbury. Her laci ship was the w id ow o f F ranc i s Al mor i c, Ist Lord Churchil l ' youngest son of G eorge , 4th D u k e o f M ar lb oroug h, icb c)o she married 25th N ovem b er , 1801. Th e d eceas ed Ir j „ was the fifth d aug ht er o f th e 3d Duke of Grafton, fr' l ' a was mother of the present Lord Churchill, Hon. Georg Augustus Ch urc hill, L a d y Cl on b roc k, G enera l the Ile Robert Charles Churchill, &c. DEATH OF MISS BREMER.—The Stockho lm papers announce the death of Miss Frederica Brera er t the celebrated Swedish novelist. Miss Bremer was bore Abo, in Finland, in 1802. After spending several yeal'S In Norway and Stockholm as a teacher, she devoted hers ° , entirely to literary pursuit s . H er fi rst novels, The Ft ' t sident's Daughters " and the "Neighb ours, " h a d a grsi',, outA;t3SS, and wore translated into most of the Europe:ea languages. Miss Bremer travelled a good deal, and ViSi Germany, France, England, America, It a ly, an d the Ea st • PRESENT FOR THE EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA. —A 01 , 9 r nificent Hungarian mantle, trimmed an d li ne d with erot ei o is being made at Perth for the E m p ress o f A u stria Wm" her Majesty enters Hungary. It is to cost £4,000. AMATEUR PERFORMANCE IN AID OF THE P n t; MATIC COLLEGE.—The club of amateurs known a° t he Wandering Thespians announc e a p er f ormance for day, the 23d inst., to be held at the St. Martin's ga ll ' aid of the funds of tne above deserving institution. i , ‘ , s THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE AND THE FREEMAS ° ' OF NOTTS.—The installation of the Duke of IS rel :f castle as Provincial Grand Master of the Freemason s v , Nottinghamshire took place yesterday at the Istlecha ni , es e Hall, Nottingham. The noble duke was invested with t'n ll insignia of the order by the Rev. W. H. W. A. Bol:,„, rector of Clapham, and Mr. E. J. 'lntyre, of Lon" - .4 Grand Registrar. There was a good muster of the fraterni from the neighbouring counties. After the installation the noble Grand Master presided at a collation held at t o School of Art, at which masons only were admitted. r 0 the evening the Duke of Newcastle and other chief offlc e of the craft patronised the new theatre, a prologue he lrifi i been written for the occasion lay Mr. Walter Montgom ery. To-night there will be a grand masonic ball. to A MARBLE MONUMENT is about to be creme riefi the memory of Edgar Allan Poe in the Presbyte7 ti , burial ground, corner of Fayette and Green-streets, 13 °' more, in which city the poet was buried. SIGNOR MARIO continues to draw crow ded ho to the Madrid opera. After " Faust" he appeared in Favorita," with Madame Csillag, an d b o th ar ti s t s were I. ' 3 J : ceived with the greatest favour, Signor Mario, in d ia e ;,4 being the object of the most boundless enthusiasm. Laura Harris made her first appearance in the " Son a 7 i ; hula," and had an extra or di nary success, b e i ng called t1 " ..-' teen times.—Musical World. THE SKULL OF B EN J ONSON. —A stateme nt 1/ P o ' peared in the Times of November 11, 1865, frl ho lecture delivered at H u ll b y D r. Kilb urn° King, ....,t ( " , effect that Ben Jonson's skull had been extracted from W minster Abbey on th e occas i on o f th e i n t ermen t of Y Hunter's remains, and was now in the possession of private individual. Th e w h o l e s t ory h as b een j us t set - 1 rest by a lucid description of the circumstances O lit ,fel which the story grew in an i n t eres ti ng wor k j us t publis" t , by Mr. Frank Buckland, so n o f th e l ate D ean o f 0.°8 6 1. minster—" Gleanings of Natural Hi s t ory, " thi r d series , /), 6, pp. 141-189. It ther e a pp ears, w ith muc h cur i ou s det s- 0 that the skull of Ben Jonson rests, beyond question , sl t i g 12 or 18 inches beneath the tri angu l ar s t one which b e be his name in the north aisle of the nave of the Abbey i n t o, place in which the remains were found in an upright P t ° l3 o tion (according to tradition) at an accidental opening c" grave in 1849. THE GREAT FIRE at St. K a th ar i ne ' s D o cks r he sented many points of i n t eres t un t ouc h e d by t le , reporters. The sight it se lf was won d er f u l beyond ' 0 scription, but the lounging crowds who collected to s ee pe . presented as curious and i n s ome r e sp ec t s as a wful 1 1, °P - e i tacle as the fire itself. The greater part of them We re the lowest labouring class—men willin g to work fore her living, but gettin g littl e t o d o . Am ong th es e not n:3O, pression of regret was to be heard, though the women ba times asked anxiously whether any one was likely ° r o hurt. The men looked with interest on the spe d a d% th e were sorry that they should have to move oh when nig ht night slops come out"—that is to say Wh e n the 111 0 %, police were turned out to help. But the felling most monly expressed was this of an old woman -" - Au o there will be work for poor men." A fire like this rn 0 0 plenty of work for labourers. No one ignorant of til r jo• neighbourhoods can understand the weight of those lf° o o Day by day, year by year, hundreds of men—a score or in at the different gates of the dock—may be seen wai til3s ge stolid weariness for the chance of a day's work - the "the of which is half-a-crown. Whon a foreman comes t d ° t ho gate to take on a few hands the press of the men an f / 110 faces—hungry, eager beyond description—make on ° ° st of saddest of the sad sights to be seen even at the ee'the London. We make no suggestion as to the cane° °f pig fire, though that ono should break out twice in a b o ve months in the same warehouse looks ugly.—ffor the s . , is tor impressive and significant paragraph, with t he sir; in sug gestion thrown out out at the close of it, W e 3 debted to a recent number of the Pall Mall Gazette . ] ar et GLASGOW, Jan. 6.—Cotton.--The cotton has been firm and steady during the Wee k k,- 3 ,15' prices have had an upward tendency. Goods an d keep —The market has been quiet this week, but Pri ee eo sill ° very firm. Iron.—We continue to have a very elfr o Nay business in warrants, and the op9rators seem in a n gst '+ daunted by the adverse turn taken by the money T o 9a the prices for the week have ranged . from 64s 9d t u _ ger iog cash, and the close to-day was firm with buyers °Pi i - o . 11 65s 3d. No. 1, g.m.b., quoted 655; No. 3, 64 s 3d; Gartsherrie and Coltness, 695. WAYS. Cash. I D o I Pe, .kiu l I I I sa I s l) , i 1 Ni. . lib z r i et sto p °lt i