The Sun. — London, England, 1865-02-17 00:00:00

IIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Sole Manager and Director, Mr. W. Harrison. TILLS EVENING the performance will commence with the new Opera, LARA. Principal characters by 3iessrs. Swift, G. Holley, Forbes, Terrott, and Renwick; M saes Louisa Py/le, Cottrell, Burrington, and Romer. Conductor, Signor ARDITI. After the Opera will be griven the Burlesque, entitled THE I.ION AND THE UNICORN. Principal characters, Messrs. Rowse, Anderson, &c. ; Misses E. Button, Cottrell, Furtado. To conclude w.th the GUAND TRANSFORAIATION SCENE. Doors open at Half-past Six. Commence at Seven. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT- GARDEN. (Opera Company, Limited.) CONTINUED SUCCESS OF CINDERELLA AND THE WONDERFUL DONATO. THIS EVENING a new Opura, in one act, entitled THE RIVE it seurrE. The music by Frank 3 , i ori, the words by George Lin:ey. Characters by Messrs. G. Perrin, Weiss, A, Cook, Lyall, E. Duss k, and Mdme Florence Lancia. CondWtor, Mr. A. 'MELLON. After which, at a quarter -past S, the Grand alend highly successful fai.tomicue, CINDERELLA, in Wiltt Donato will reappear. Magnifi c ent Scencry and gorge ous accessories. Commen:e at Seven. TII EATR E-R OYA L, DRURY-LANE, Managers. Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chattcrton. THIS EVENING, Shakespere's Play of HENRY THE EIGHTH, teiminating with the fall of Wolsey. Mcsare. Phelps, Walter Lacey.-II: Marston, E. Phelps, Barrett, Sin clair ; Miss Atkinson, Mrs. Vandenoff, &c. After which, the Grand Christmas Pantomime, HOP 011 Y THUMB AND HIS ELEVEN BROTHERS; or, Harlequin and the Ogre of the Seven -League Boots Messrs. O. E e l_ more, Tom Matthews, G. Weston, Master Percy Roselle, Ate. Misses Lydia Thompson. R. Lccleroq, &c. ; Messrs. Boleno , U. L a uri, W. A. Barnes, T. Morris, Cormack, Saville • bid me. Bolen°, the Misses Gunniss, and Signor Tescano. T EATR E-R YA L, HAYMARKET. Lessee. Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, Feb. 17, DAVID GARRICK. Messrs. Chippendale, Sothern, Buckstone, Rogers, Clark, Coe, Wes.. t h„ s by, &G ; Mesdames Moore, Snowdon, litzwilliam, &o. After which, LORD DUNDREARY MARRIED AND DONE FOR Messrs. Sothern, Bnckstone, Braid, Gordon, Clark, White, Coe, Weatheraby, &c. ; Mesdames Snowdon, Hill, &c With PRINCESS SPRINGTIME. Mr. Compton, Miss L. Keeley. And THE WOLF AND THE LAMB. To commence at 7. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPIII— ooIe rrouriotor and irlaittgvr, W duster. THIS EVENING, STEPHEN DIGGES. Messrs. J. L. Tool., Billington, Eburne ; Mrs. A. Mellon, Mrs. billington, and M 89 II Simms. To conclude with THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST. Messrs. J. L. Toole, I. Bedfozd, Biliiiigton, Stuart, Stephen son, C. J. Smith, Eburne ; Mrs. A. Mellon, Mrs. Billington, Miss K. Kelley, and .niss A. Seaman. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. 1. echter. THIS EVENING, SIMPSON AND CO. Mes srs. S. Emery, C. Horsman, Collett ; Mesdames C. llorsmau, lien rade, E. Boyce, and Elswortny. Atter which, at half-past 9, a New Drsma, entitled THE ROADSIDE INN. Rt.bert Mazaire, Mr. r echter. Messrs. Widdicomb, C. liorsman, itzpatrick, Garden, Moreland, Raymond, t;ollett; Mesdames E.sworthy and B. Percy. To conclude with BEABFACED IMPOSTORS. Mr. IVidd!somb. Doors open at Hall-past Six. The Box-office open daily from Elevai till Five. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, air. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, a new Extravaganz I, entitled THE MAGIC HORSE AND THE WE MAIDEN I RINCES Atter which, THE STREETS OF LONDON. Messrs. Vining, J. W. Ray, D. Fisher. D. Murray, J. Nelson. H. Forrester. H. Melton; Mrs. Henry. Maiston, Miss Emma Barnett, and Miss Fanny Gwynne. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress. Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7, THE WILFUL WARD. Mr. BeHold ; Miss Palmer. After which, the great Comic Drama, MILKY WHITE. Messrs. Craven, Stoyle, James; Miss Swanborough. To conclude w.th TdE " GRIN" BUSHES : Mr. Fenton, ; Mesdames Itaynham, Simpson, Jonnstone, COALS. —The T JUL - ATESHALL COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis' 265. per ton. I Double.. 21s. per ton. Top 9 55. „ Deep 22s: „ Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Virestbourne tart-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, raddington, W.. and bliiiden-lane, N. Beat Coke Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, dole tgent. frIIE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN" it supplied, as soon as published every Eveninir by W. ALEXANDER (late BROOKS), Newspaper Agent, 21, Old Cavenaisn- street, Oxford.street. (IIHE THIRD EDITION OF " TJIE SUN,' Containing the Latest SPOLtaiNtk INTItiLLIUEZi tiara be had Every Evening of G. R. GLLcNIE , Nzurs AGE:CT, NO. 4, Connaught-terrace, 11 yde-park. THE LAST EDITION of " THE SUN ' supplied as soon as Published containing all the LATEST k;WS ant STORTING INT E.LIAG ItNee, by W. IS, Ne spaper Agent, 4, Thacktriars-roau, London, S. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DA'.—Morning, sh. 55m.—Afternoon, 6h. 12m, To-Monßow.-Morning, 6h. 30m.—Afternoon, 6h. 50m. S . $4 . -. tfirg LONDON, FRIDAY, FEB. 17, 1865. In considering the internal prosperity of our vast Indian dominions, two departments of cultivation especially attract attention—the tea and cotton plantations. Cotton has, we know, been for many years one of the regular products of India, and the country has great capabilities in that way which have unfortunately not been made the most of. The extent of the country is so large that the greatest variety of climate exists, and the slopes of the Himalayas offer every inducement to the ener getic capitalist as well as to the jaded Calcutta official. These opportunities have been eagerly seized by the tea planters, and the effect of the extended cultivation will be felt ultimately in this country, as well as in its influence on the commer cial prosperity of India itself. Sir ROBERT • MONT GOMERY, in closing his career as Lieutenant- Governor of the Punjab, has drawn up a minute on the tea cultivation of the Western Himalayas. The account which he thus gives after actual personal inspection is most satisfactory, and the prosperity induced by such causes is doubly gratifying, because it belongs to no fever of temporary speculation, nor is the plenty of that nature which precedes scarcity, tending to natural reaction. The development of a thriving trade is a source of continuous and increas ing strength to a nation, and when the commodity produced is in such universal demand as tea, there is little fear or prospect of an excessive supply. Like other articles of general use the cheaper it can be grown the larger will be the demand, since new classes will use it, and large numbers will at least double their demand when the price is lowered. A faint idea of what may be done whenered from the cultivationthe fact is further developed ma y be gath that in parts of the Himalaya districts tea can already be profitably sold at eighteenpence a pound. If we can get rid of our burdensome tea duties by the time the cost of production has been diminished to one-half the present price, as it naturally will be, what a boon we shall have here for our poorer Cl asßefi! Our temperance societies should hail the prospect with delight, since the teapot, as we all know, is in the lower ranks a formidable antagonist to the gin palace ; and, if less popular with labour ing men than the more substantial glass of beer, the weary and jaded sedentary worker finds in 4 4 the cup that cheers but not inebriates" advantages that are all its own. W e are some way yet from this desirable state of things, but British India is cer tainly at present on the road to it, and b e f ore we feel the advantage s o f i t over here sanguine men look forward to an immense extension Indian commerce throughout CentralAi e Africa. The Chinese, who of course do a vast trade in that e direction, will find dangerous rivals in the R un . a i aya cultivators. Cakes of tea, which Chin a imports in large quantities westward, are charged by one Indian company at half-a-crown a cake, whil e i n Kashmir they are priced at six shillings. Thi s shows what a field is open for enterprise, and a very large proportion of the millions of our own Indian subjects will eagerly avail themselves of the reduced price of tea to bring into common use that which they have heretofore considered an unattainable luxury. Tea is not an article to go out of fashion, as we may easily find by tracing the history of its introduction into any European country, and the increase of supply and diminution of coal is only likely to increase and strengthen the demand. The progress of the Indian cultivation has been singu larly rapid and shows how favourable must be the auspices of the Himalayas. Four years ago in the Western Himalayas only three experimental State gardens were planted with tea, whereas now it is spread over the whole district. In the Kurpah Valley, where formerly one of the State gardens had the whole cultivation to itself, tea is now grown in 47 villages, and the peasantry, according to Sir R. MONTGOMERY'S report, are joining eagerly in the movement. Wherever he went he was be sieged by zemindars exhibiting samples of tea which they had grown in their own fields, and the culti vation is most popular. Culivators who had a few ' years ago hardly clothes to cover them, now reckon their hundred of rupees. Such was the verdict of the natives on the success of the tea plantation, and it may naturally be supposed that where Hindoos prosper in trade Englishmen will not be idle. In fact, it is the presence of English energy and English capital which has stimulated the natives to exertion. On the high road to Lahore there are 17 tea estates belonging to Englishmen which cover 15 square miles, and all along the western slopes the planters are gradually turning waste and neglected lands into sources of comfort and prosperity. It is satisfactory to find that the presence of these strangers is not unwelcome to the people, but the relations between them are friendly. So beneficial has been the effect of the contact with civilisation that the people have applied for two government schools in which they may learn Eng- I lish, offering to pay half the expense. Of course the necessities of trade have as much to do with this request as any desire for mental cultivation, but the sign is at any rate a hopeful one. In marked contrast to the flourishing condition of the native tea trade is the unsatisfactory state of the internal cotton supply. Instead of the native manufactures receiving any stimulus from the high prices, they have rather declined, while the demand for English manufactures has also sensibly dimi nished. In the country districts the trade is said to be absolutely stagnating, and the weavers to be suf fering extreme distress. Great numbers of the people who used to wear an outer garment of Eng lish cloth have left it off, and in other parts wool is taking the place of cotton. In the North-western provinces, while European fabrics have risen from 50 to 100 per cent. in price, native goods have risen from 100 to 200 per 'cent. Yet no one can doubt that the cotton trade of India is capable of fully as much extension as the tea trade, were the same encouragement given to it. It must be remembered, in estimating the deficiency of the cotton supply in India, that the extravagant prices have not produced a corres ponding increase in production. Of course Indian cotton has formed the staple of our supply during the last year or two, but then we must remember the vast capabilities of the country, and the fact that cotton cultivation has been established there for years, instead of as in other parts having to struggle through the difficulties attending its intro duction. Also, we must recollect that the quality of the Indian cotton has been very much inferior to what might have been reasonably expected, and that frauds of every kind have been perpetrated with impunity ; yet in the face of all these drawbacks and difficulties, with the almost entire absence of State encouragement, India stands first on the list of cotton-producing countries. How much, then, is it to be regretted that so profitable a source of revenue should have been so long neglected and mismanaged? A very few years sufficed to dcvelope the extraordinary propor tions of the American trade ; but we have had a good many years', experience in India without making a proportionate advance either in quality or quantity. The special advantages offered by our constant communication with India, and particu larly by our having the undisputed control of the country, would, one might think, secure every at tention to this matter. An Indian market would in any case be a wholesome check upon American merchants, while the security offered to our manu facturers by the double source of supply must be immediately apparent to everyone out of the India Office. It is satisfactory to find that the Courts of Justice Building Bill has been read a second time, for it affords some hope that it will reach completion before the end of the session. Of course, there were many dissentients to the proposal, as will generally be found to be the case in all such decided changes; but it does not appear upon reflection that any of the arguments against the scheme were valid, or, at all events, sufficiently important to sanction the withdrawal of the bill. The Attorney- General gave a very fair exposition the other evening of the whole nature of the measure, and was at great pains to explain the manner in which they proposed to carry out the project; and doubtless his state ments contained such influence that those who differed in words from his plans did not deem it expedient or consider it necessary to bring the matter to a division. An argument against this plan was that the dwellings of the poor would be disturbed, and consequent distress would prevail ; but this objection has not stopped any of the numerous railway schemes, which have been carried to completion totally regardless of inconvenience to any one. It seems therefore rather inconsistent that this idea should be taken up to the prejudice of a scheme which is of more consequence to the com munity in general than any particular line of rail way. But we all know that when people are against ness. a thing they can discover all the possible and tis fulfilment certainly with ofggreat surprising eat il d n ex a t gi er n i a ty rY d obstacles ciuick to its consequence that due provisions should be made for those who are turned out of their houses for the benefit of others, but it will never be practicable to stop their eviction. The evil to be complained of is that those who are able to do something in this way do not exert themselves, but it is an Utopian idea, incapable of realisation, that expects no changes to be made. It is for the good and gain of the com munity at large that most of these alterations are made, and they will benefit in health as well as in business by the removal of close streets and crowded dwelling-places. In the end those classes upo n whom the changes now press most heavily w ill b e the greatest gainers, for most of the streets removed are not fit to live in, and their continued occupation is prolific of the spread of disease, and must be prejudicial to all the i n h a bitants , both mentally and • bodily. So far, then, this rea son should not be considered as a stumbling-block to the affair, though of course due weight must be given to all valid statements. Mr. BAILL IE m ade a few very wise remarks upon this subject, and urged the pro priety of introducing clauses in committee by which model lodging- houses might be constructed for the benefit of those who were displaced by this great " clearance." The hon. gentleman also observed that in Paris some provision was generally made, and that House ought to have taken the matter in hand befor e , wh en railway bills were passed. Mr. KINNAILD also adverted to the same thing, and said that the " Governm ent ought to set an example in these matt ers , and where they displaced so large a number of poor tenements they should do something to supply accommodation for those who were thus ejected." It is to be hoped that the hon. and learned gentleman who introduced the measure, and his friends, will take this into considera tion, and not allow a really important and national undertaking to be marred in its effect by having its memory tarnished with the fact that its inauguration was the signal of distress to many. Mr. MALINS truly observed that it was said that this was a moribund Parliament, but that if it introduced and carried out this measure it would " die with honour," and for the first time in the history of this country we shall see the administra tion of justice carried on its fitting structure. The site proposed is certainly the best that can possibly be, and those best qualified to give an opinion must confess upon calm reflection that it answers all the ends in view to the greatest extent more fully and sufficiently than any other spot that has been sug gested. It combines many advantages, and affoxas easy access to the different classes who will require to meet there - for the transaction of business. The merchants from the City and the West-end inha bitants will not have far to come, and at the same time it is close to the chambers of lawyers, so that it is hard to discover any better locality. The Attorney-General, in his reply to the several state ments, spoke with great decision, and so far success fully accounted for his plans. He soot disposed of those arguments which had been used in support of retaining the site of the courts at Westminster. The Privy Council, he said, might have a chamber in the new Palace of Justice, for there was no magic power in Downing-street. As for the House of Lords it did not decide many cases, although they were of considerable importance. There was great truth in the observations of the hon. and learned gentleman with respect to the crowded state of that part of the town in which the new site is to be fixed. He remarked that " everybody who knows the district must lament that any part of the industrious. people of this country should be crammed up together in such a space with so many temptations to immorality surrounding them on all sides." At the same time something might be done to mitigate the annoyances that those turned out will undoubtedly experience, and those in authority will do well to take the matter into consideration. The Attorney-General spoke out forcibly upon the point of its being extravagant to erect new build ings when we have already some that are in good repair, and correctly argued that it was not true economy in the end to be perpetually patching up, instead of having a good article at once. Besides, he added, the present Courts were not so good as some made out, and even the best did not possess the accessories and requirements which were called for in such cases. The nation is tenant-at-will, as it were, to a private society, that of Lincoln's-inn, and such a state of things ought not to continue. The hon. and learned gentleman concluded by ex plaining more fully the ways and means by which it was intended to provide for the outlay of these struc tures, and declared that money that belonged to no one belonged to the State. On the whole, we think that the Attorney-General has acquitted himself of his arduous task with considerable success ; and, if the measure be brought to a successful termination, the whole affair will redound to his credit, and he will have the satisfaction of thinking that he has associated his name with a scheme which has imme diate and prospective advantages, besides its being of importance to the country that it should possess a Palace of Justice worthy of its dignity and repu tation, and consistent with its wealth and influence. The Income Tax. TO TILE EDITOR OF TILE SITS. Sut,—Previous to the present Chancellor of the Ex chequer taking office, he assured the public that as far as he was concerned the odious and oppressive Income-tax should cease in 1860. Yet he is himself the means of its continued imposition, and which is imposed as a heavy charge upon the industry of the country, proving a cause of more iniquity and falsehood than any other, and one which Lord Russell, in his place in the House of Commons, more than once denounced as unjust. I have seen small manufacturers in country places cry under the oppression, being surcharged after they had sustained serious losses by their trade, and most inquisitorial searches made into their domestic affairs—the Commissioners acting with the ut most severity, if not with cruelty—and all this unneces sary charge upon the industry of the poor in a time of pro found peace, which, however, was originally instituted as a war tax. How long is the imposition, with its cruel, oppressive, and inquisitorial consequences, to be inflicted ? When will the people's representatives do their duty ? You, Sir, have often advocated the cause of justice, espe cially for those classes of society most oppressed with such burdens, with decided advantage. Will you not again in this matter—particularly as there is not an article in the Excise or Customs that is cheaper to the consumer from the remission of duties—render your aid in the removal of so obnoxious, oppressive, inquisitorial, and unjust im position.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, A CONSTANT READER OF " THE SUN." City, Feb. 16, 1865. BANK OF FRANCE• PARIS, FEB. 16. The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day, together with the cor responding figures of the previous account : DEBTOR. Feb. 16. Feb. 9. fr. c. fr. c. Capital of the Bank 182,500,000 182,500,000 Profits in addition to capital (Art. 8, Law, June 9, 1857 Reserve of the Bank and its branches 22,105,750 14 22,105,750 14 Reserve in landed pro perty 4,000,000 4,000,000 Notes in circulation Banknotes to order and receipts payable at sight 5,859,523 42 6,246,618 64 Treasury account cur .. rent Creditor Current accounts, Paris 116,517,152 02 129,309,601 97 Do. branch banks Dividends payable 2,301,653 75 2,574,848 75 Discounts and sundry interests Rediscounted the last six months 2,789,444 05 2,789,444 05 Sundries Total CREDITOR. Feb. 16. Feb. 9. Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr. c. Branch banks Commercial bills over due Commercial bills dis counted, not yet due 298,239,775 99 328,857,706 40 Do. branch banks 305,900,282 307,446,199 Advances on deposit of bullion 12,576,931 55 12,470,931 55 Do. branch banks 3,935,000 4,248,210 Do. on French Public Securities 14,501,200 14,584,100 Do. by branch banks 8,623,600 9,205,400 Do. on railway shares and debentures D. branch banks 16,869,850 17,573,750 Do. on Credit Fonder Bonds Do. bran c h es Do. to the State (Con vention, June 10, 1857) 60,000,000 60,000,000 Government Stock re serve 12,980,750 14 . 12,980,750 11 Do. disporablo Rentes I obalis4es 36,656,737 91 36,696,737 91 (Law, June 2, 1857) 100,000,000 100,000,000 Hotel and furniture of the Bank and landed property branches ... 8,408,595 8,408,546 Expenses of manage- Taunt 223,930 5G 221,800 06 Sundries Total 1,272,417,135 41 1,287,921,267 81 (Signed) The Senator Governor of the Bank of France, Rol:MANI). MISS BATE3IAN. —D rs . Billing and Chappell, the medical attendants of Miss Bateman, have positively interdicted that lady from resuming her engage meat at the Adelphi Theatre for the present. Miss Bate man is suffering from the effects of a severe cold, which has attacked her throat, and which deprives her in great part of the use of her voice, while at the same time it precludes her from undergoing the physical exertion in cidental to the discharge of her professional duties. As soon as her physicians give their consent Miss Bateman will resume the character of Julia in the " Hunchback," which indisposition alone compels her temporarily to dis continue. THE SUN, LONDON', FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 17, 1865. LATEST INTELLIGEbTCE. (REUTER'S EXPRESS.) CANADA. QUEBEC, Feb. 3. On Wednesday last the Hon. J. A. Macdonald brought before the Legislative Assembly his Alien Bill, entituled " An Act for the prevention and re pression of outrages in violation of the peace on the frontier of this province, and for other purposes." It was read last evening for the third time, and passed with comparatively slight opposition, the votes on the division being—yeas, 107 ; nays, 7. The bill consists of three portions : Ist. The personal expulsion law, chiefly copied from the Im perial Act of 1848, by which the Government is empowered to remove from this country such aliens who by their conduct should render themselves un worthy of asylum. 2dly. Preventive clauses, adopted from an Act of Congress of the United States, passed in 1838, for the prevention of incur sions into Canada. 3dly. The foreign aggression law against the local preparation of munitions of war, to be used in hostilities against the United States, adapted from the United States Act in such cases provided. _ _ _ In proposing the measure, Mr. Macdonald stated that before introducing the bill the Canadian Go vernment]took counsel with the Imperial authorities, and that the British Alien Act of 1848 was distinctly indicated as most proper to be put in operation in this country. He also stated that the measure had been initiated entirely at the suggestion of the Canadian Government, and not from any dictation or even expression of desire on the part of the United States Government to have such legislation. The following is a summary of the Act :- 1. Any written information attested by the sig nature and address of the writer, and sent either to the Governor-General or the Provincial Secretary, enables the Governor-General to order the departure from the Province, within a limited time, of the alien represented as plotting against the United States Government. 2. The alien is to be notified through the Canada Gazette alone, no personal notification being neces sary. 3. Disobedience to such order authorises the im mediate arrest and imprisonment under the personal warrant of the Governor-general, without bail or mainprize of the alien, until he be finally departed from the country. This disobedience is punished by imprisonment (for a term not exceeding 12 months) in the common gaol.. 4. The Governor may, from the close to one month after the opening of the navigation of the St. Lawrence, detain such alien in prison. 5. Upon an alien, not being convicted of misde meanour, the Governor in Council may allow the alien's excuse, on reason given by him, for his dis obedience, or may grant extension of the time given for expulsion, but no such privilege is granted should the alien be convicted of misdemeanour. 6. The Governor is authorized to furnish the alien with the natur3 of the charges brought against him, but he is not required to give the name of the informer. 7. Aliens may adduce evidence upon oath, and examine witnesses before the Governor in Council in support of any alleged excuse for disobedience. 8. A writ of habeas corpus may be granted by a judge, but only to relieve the alien when arrested and imprisoned•for disobedience to the Governor's warrant. 9. On Wednesday last the Hon. P. Tache gave notice that this evening he would move the follow ing motion in the Legislative Council " To resolve—That an humble address be pre sented to her Majesty, praying that she may be graciously pleased to came a measure to' be sub mitted to the Imperial Parliament for the purpose of uniting the colonies of Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, and Prince Ed ward's Island in one Govenrment, with provisions based upon resolutions adopted at a conference of delegates from the said colonies, held at the city of Quebec on the 10th October, 1864. Owing to a demand being made by the United States Government, the Canadian Executive pro poses to appropriate the sum of $250,000 in gold towards indemnifying the St. Alban's bank. Judge Coursal is suspended, pending a statutory commission of inquiry into his conduct in dismiss ing the Vermont raiders. It is rumoured that the Canadian Government have obtained the opinion of the English Attorney-General, which is adverse to Judge Coursal's decision. It is said that owing to the friendly relations existing between the Canadian and the United States Government, the passport system lately in troduced is to be speedily abolished so far as Canada is concerned. . A force of 2,000 - militia. is now in active service in the frontier, entailing an annual expense of it,1,000,000. The following are extracts from the latest tele grams published by the Halifax papers NEW YORK, Feb. 2 p.m. Confederate papers say that 4,000 bales of cotton were burnt at Wilmington on the 28th. Several cartloads were also burnt. The main body of the Confederate force is con centrated near Charleston. News from Fort Fisher states that the Federal gunboats had gone up the Cape Fear River to bom bard the forts near Wilmington. The long debate in Congress on the proposition to amend the Constitution, abolishing slavery throughout the United States, closed yesterday, and the amendment was adopted —yeas, 119 ; nays, 56. It had previously passed the Senate. Letters from the Army of the Potomac dated the 30th ult. say that there is nothing to report except the arrival within the Federal lines of squads of deserters daily, who report stories of demoralisation prevailing in the Confederate ranks. Large fires occurred in Savannah on the 27th and 28th, during which an open keg of powder was discovered in close proximity to the magazine, in which was stored thirty tons of powder. It is be lieved some desperate Confederate intended to destroy the city. General Grant has been on a visit to Fort Fisher. There has been great rejoicing throughout Mas sachusetts to-day on account of the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery, which was signed by President Lincoln yesterday. FRANCE. BOURSE, Feb. 16.—The impressions produced on the Bourse by the Imperial Speech are still of a n undecided character. Th rees , for the Account, are now at 67f. 30c. M o bili er are not quoted. Rail way Shares are very fi rm , with a partial rise in quotations. The market was inactive, but recent quotations have been maintained. The following are the closing prices : Italian Loan 65 15 Do. end month 65 15 Ditto Threes New Mexican 55 Russian B9 50 Austrian Spanish Threes H o me Debt Deferred WAYS. Cash. Acct. Orleans ....u m .... 50 927 50 Northern ............... 9 27 1012 50 ... 10 42 5 0 Lyons and Mediter ranean 945 ... 946 25 Southern ........... 578 75 ... 578 75 Western 540 ... 540 41 per Cents 96 40 Do. end month 3 per Cents 67 30 Do. end month 67 30 Credit Mobilier Do. end month Bank Shares 3540 Credit Foncier 1280 Roman 74 - RAIL' Eastern ... Sardinian . ' .................. 520 - ... 520 .................. 308 75 Austrian Lombard.. 445 - ... 446 25 550 551 25 North of Spain .......... 342 50 34 2 50 Saragossa ......................... 405 403 75 Ditto to 8arce10na..........,,,, — EXCISION of THE TONGUE.—Newspaper readers will not fail to remember that two distressing cases of excision of the tongue have occurred within the last two or three years ; and, as these cases terminated fatally, it seems only fair to record the fact that a successful case of excision of the tongue has recently taken place. The patient was a Manchester man, the operation was performed in Edinburgh by Professor Syme, without the aid of chlo roform, and the unhappy sufferer, who for some time after the operation returned to his own home, has since written to Professor Syme stating that he never felt better in his life than lIONT.--avettracan. LITERATIMB. • • ••••••••••••••5............. Dorothy Firebrace; or, The Armourer's Daughter of Birmingham. By the Author of " Whitefriars." Three Vols. Bentley. The history of England in the days of the Charleses appears to possess a peculiar attraction for the brilliant author of " Whitefriars " and "Whitehall." " Whitefriars" is a tale of the time of the " Merrie Monarch," and " Whitehall," like this new work, " Dorothy Firebrace," refers to the disastrous days of Charles I. Birmingham is the scene of the chief incidents of this story, and the religious excitement of the time, as exemplified in the fanatical demagogue Wrath-of-God-White hall and his companions, is powerfully described. Here is the introductory sketch of Birmingham at that period:— BIRMINGHAM TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO. "Birmingham was a very different town in its external aspects, in 1642, to what it presents at the present day. It was a manufacturing town, it is true, and had been so from the earliest ages of English history. It enjoyed almost a unique reputation in England for all the arts of Tubal Cain —all the products of the bellows and the forge. But its size was not in any proportion to its renown ; and, had not the whole mass of the inhabitants been engaged in the staple industry of the place, it would be difficult to im agine how it could have supplied the wants, even of scat tered and unpopulous communities like those of England- - and of Europe in general—at the time. " Instead of a population of 290,000 living souls, Birming ham reckoned scarcely 6,000. " Fifteen streets and nine hundred houses lodged this population, according to the lively, but, perhaps, too ima ginative, local historian, Hutton. Equal to the demand, certainly, even if Birmingham had already acquired its sen sible liking for space and separation into families that now distinguishes it. But the lofty chimneys, towering like the burning genii of the place, in an Arabian tale, did not yet exhibit their sombre majesty over a sea of murky smoke and cloud. The smithies, scarcely raised above the gene ral run of two-storied houses, and chiefly confined to the lower portion of the town, sent forth their temperate volumes of sooty vapour, each from its separate range of open timber-work, to the streets. Iverywhere else, Bir mingham presented the aspect of a quiet country town, re posing in the midst of fields and woodlands, not yet stripped of vegetation and verdure by the flaming breath of a thou sand furnaces." It is at Birmingham, in the midst of a fanatical tu mult among the townspeople, that we encounter the charming Dorothy, and here, too, she is first beheld by the heir of Aston, the hero of her life's romance. The following extract is a happy specimen of the style and character of the tale, and the author's descriptive power : THE OLD CROWN HOUSE. " The armourer's daughter and her cavalier protector had now, for some time, been wending their way through Dig beth—which abounded in tanners and dyers—into the quarter of the smiths, as Deritend might very properly have been styled, since nearly all those of Birmingham at this epoch resided in it—a quarter byno means then merit ing its unhandsome modern nickname of Dirty End, the true etymology of the term being probably The-Rea-Gate- End, from a toll-gate established at the bridge over the river Rea, where certain entry-dues of the Lords of Birmingham were le7ied. "It was, in fact, one of the most substantial and wealthy districts of Birmingham at that time, the principal trade of the town being thus chiefly exercised in it—the Edg baston of its day, in some respects, though not in the articles of external beauty and embellishment, in conse quence of the mature of the business carried on in it. But here the masters of the Birmingham manufactures and principal men of the town resided in the midst of their work and work-people. Our simple-mannered and congenial ancestors had not yet dreamed of the habits of seclusion and separation between the classes of society , which modern luxury and super-refinement have intro duced.: On all sides Deritend accordingly resounded with the music of hammer and anvil, although the general style of the buildings was that of the most substantial resi dent citizenship. On all sides—from deep caverns of soot hung timber-work—blazed the fires of unnumbered forges ; on all sides could be heard the laborious pantings of hun dreds of pairs of bellows, like that of the lungs of giants engaged in some mountain-heaving taskwork. " And so the young pair, whom chance had thus mated, paused 200 years ago—as any of the myriad toilers of Bir mingham may at this day—under the eaves and before the wide porch of the mansion and workshop of the Firebrace Smiths, known as the Old Crown House. And the careful restorations recently effected as a labour of love by the judi cious antiquarian proprietor, probably leave the structure muchas it appeared to Edward Holte when he raised his eyes upon the announcement with which Dorothy Firebrace broke what was becoming an embarrassing and entangling conversation, in spite of the secret feeling of satisfaction and pleasure in each other's good looks and congenial society that certainly ran through their whole brief asso ciation hitherto." The story of Dorothy and Edward Holte is inte resting and attractive throughout, and the historical scenes are skilfully interwoven with the romance; but while we award due commendation to the chief hero and heroine of the tale, we cannot ad mire the extravagant episode of the loves of the haughty Arabella Holte and the deformed blacksmith, Tubal Bromycham, " the lord of Birmingham." Eliot Warburton would have regarded with dismay the portrait of Prince Rupert as depicted by this author. The Rupert classed with " the Cavaliers," by the author of " the Crescent and the Cross," is here portrayed as nothing else but a butcher and a ruffian. His pursuit of the insane Arabella and her " sensa- tional" destructio n i s unwort h y of ^ a writer so well able to excite an interest in the legitimate province of historical romance. The following passage, how ever, requires no comment : lIIGIILY SENSATIONAL. "Every argument and entreaty were vainly exhausted by Tubal, in his love and sorrow, to prevail upon Arabella to venture on her chances of preservation after his own de struction had glutted the rage of their enemies. To meaner minds and hearts, incapable of great emotions, it may appear that the delirium induced by her long solitary confinement and sufferings still worked in the heroic woman's brain, and prompted her resolve. Spirits more akin will better comprehend that it was the only decision that remained for such a one to take compatible with its heroic impulses and purposes. And they will even under stand how at last, unable to refuse himself so supreme a triumph and release from the most terrible of his sor rows and fears in yielding to the fate that compassed him, Tubal Bromycham consented to his beloved bride's decree. " Yet no power of language could do justice to the un utterable anguish mingled with the unutterable joy —with which finally Tubal clasped the idol of his brave and loving heart in a last embrace, and with his own arm still wreathed around her, supported her forth with himself to their doom. " Strangely enough, however, Arabella seemed to have regained all the strength and stately grace of her accus tomed manner as she stepped forth with her husband from the Moat House, right in front of the cannon, which was now in full preparation to be discharged--doubtless with the determination on the part of the barbarous assailants, either to compel a surrender on the part of Tubal to a more ignominious fate, or batter down the old mansion of his ancestors over his head. " Rupert and his slaughtering host now concentrated thickly round the edge of the moat, and attentively watch ing for the result, beheld two figures emerge from the an cient manor-house of the Lords of Birmingham, closely linked arm-in-arm. " Immediately recognising in the glare of the burning town around that one of these was the lame hero-smith, whom he so much detested, the Prince would have given orders to destroy him at once by a discharge of musketry, had he not also discerned that his closely linked companion was Arabella Holte. " ' The dastard !' he yelled; does he think to save him self from my just vengeance thus? He but spares himself for the gallows !' " To the life-long horror and saddening of this ferocious soldier, however, the pair, reaching the verge of the moat, waved him a species of scornful greeting and farewell, and then turning, clasped each other in their arms, and flung themselves together into the deep, dark water of the moat ! " So willingly did both these unfortunate lovers consent to death that neither rose for several minutes, and when they did it was as corpses, still closely clasped in each other's arms. "And thus perishedthe:last Lord of Birmingham and his bride of Aston Hall ; emblems, let us hope, of a happier future indissoluble union between the town of Tubal Bromycham and the noble palace which his genius chiefly had adorned." In some particulars we are glad to notice an im provement in the tone of this author's writings. We shall hope, in the next work from that prolific and powerful pen, to find no such melodramatic " effect" as the above quoted suicide of the last Lord of Bir ham and his bride. The Psychonomy of the Hand; - or, Vie Hand an Index of Mental Development, according to MM. D'Arpentigny and Desbarrolles. With Illustra trations--Tracings from Living Hands. By Richard Beamish, F.R.S., author of " The Life of Sir Isambard Brunel." One Vol., folio, pp. 90, plates 30. Pitman. The Psychonomy of the Hand, or Every One Ina Own F or t un e-teller, should have been the title of this hand-book. The Norwood gipsy of famous memory might bring an action against this betrayer of the secrets of the prison-house. In the 90 pages of letter-press, and more especially in the 30 illus trative plates contained in this volume, we have a very elaborate and comprehensive treatise upon the hand as the index to men and minds—to the indivi dual and to the race. The comprehensive nature of the illustrative examples may be readily imagined when we say that among the examples given the specimens selected range from the hand of the Gorilla to that of Lord Brougham ! In the hand of the latter, of course, the " line of the head " is very prominently marked, and the " line of life " is a double one.. Elsie; Flights to Fairyland, 6-e. By J. Crawford Wilson, or "Jonathan Oldaker." One Vol., pp. 247. Moxon. Notwithstanding the terrible interpretation usually attached to the bestowal of " faint praise," what else can we award to the majority of the almost in numerable volumes of " Poems" that issue from the press, and in which we find little to condemn, except the painful fact that there is little to commend. Of this class is " Elsie," a collection of pleasant verses, and nothing more. The Gold Mine and other Poems. By Harriett Eliza Hunter. In one volume, pp. 298. Hurst and Blackett. " The Gold Mine" is a narrative poem in which the hero, like many ambitious adventurers, leaves his family and friends in a vain pursuit of wealth. After many vicissitudes he returns to find at last— " A happy home the true gold mine." The poems in this volume are above the average merit of such productions ; but we cannot com mend the author's good taste in selecting Victor lingo's charming poem " L'Enfant" as the subject for a humorous translation. Arno's Waters and other Poems. By Frances Jane Forsyth. One vol., pp. 312. Saunders, Otley, and Co. A pleasing collection of simple verses descriptive of the scenery on the banks of the Arno. " Onward ever, passing cities, Homes uprising at its side, Yet with ever pensive beauty. . The Log of the Alabama and the Sumter. From the Private Journals and other Papers of Com mander R. Semmes, C.S.N., and other Officers. Abridged from the Library Edition. One Vol., pp. 297. Saunders, Otley, and Co. The log of the Alabama which we noticed on its appearance in two volumes, has been here very judi ciously condensed into a small form, and constitutes an interesting and valuable memento of a romantic episode of the American war. Our Domestic Fire places : a Treatise on the Econo nomical Use of Fuel, and the Prevention of Smoke. By Frederick Edwards, jun. Second Edition. One Vol., pp. 100. 74 illustrations. Hardwicke. This very comprehensive treatise upon the proper construction and management of the domestic hearth, embellished as it is with numerous illustrative examples, is well worthy of consideration. We are glad to find the author disagreeing with Dr. Arnott and others who advocate the general use of a stove rather than a fire-place, and call our national pre ference for the latter, a " prejudice." It is a pre judice, however, so interwoven with the English love of home that only a theorist could venture to find fault with it-- "For him no more the blazing hearth shall burn ;" but for ourselves we should be loth to precipitate such a calamity. Luther's Letters to Women. Collected by Dr. K. Zimmermann ; Translated by Mrs. Malcolm. One vol., pp. 168. Chapman and Hall. A collection of letters addressed by Luther to his wife and other ladies are contained in this volume, which is intended as a gift-book for English ladies. The fact that by their marriage both Luther and his wife broke their monastic vows is hardly likely to prepossess many in their favour. The Tale of Danish Heroism. By J. E. H. Skinner, Special Correspondent of the Daily News during the late war. One vol., pp. 248. Bickers and Son. " The Tale of Danish Heroism" is one , that will bear twice telling. Mr. Skinner has given us a very interesting sketch of the chief portion of the disas trous campaign. MARKETS—This Day. - - MARK-LANE. Only a moderate supply of English wheat was on sale here to-day. The condition of the produce was good, and the trade, on the whole, ruled steady, at-full quotations. With foreign wheat the market was but moderately sup plied. Importers and holders were firm in their demands, and although the demand ruled far from active, Monday's prices were well supported. Floating cargoes of grain were in moderate request, at late rates. _ _ The supply of barley on sale was moderate. Good and fine malting qualities sold steadily, at fnll currencies; otherwise, the barley trade was quiet, at late prices. In malt a limited business was transacted at previous quotations. The supply of oats on sale was moderate. For all qua lities the trade was firm, and fine samples were rather dearer than on Monday. Beans ruled firm, at fully the late advance in prices. Peas moved off slowly, but at full quotations. There was a fair demand for most descriptions of flour, and prices ruled firm. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat.Barley.Malt. Oats. Flour. English and Scotch 1,010 1,820 2,690 4,450 1,330 Irish — Foreign 10,800 300 sks. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. But moderate supplies of meat are on sale at these mar kets, and the trade is firm for all descriptions at our quota tions. Per 81b by the carcase. s d s cl sdsd Inferior beef 3 2 3 6 Inferior mutton.... 3 8 4 2 Middling do.. 3 8 4 2 31 ddling mutton.. 4 4 4 6 Prime large do 4 4 4 6 Prime do - 4 8 4 10 Prime small do 4 8 410 Veal 4 4 5 4 Large pork 3 0 4 4 Small pork. 4 6 4 10 BOROUGH HOP. Our market continues to be very moderately supplied English hops. For good and fine qualities the market still presents a firm appearance, and late rates are well sup ported. Inferior hops are in slow request, but at full prices. The best foreign hops move off steadily at full currencies. Mid and East Kent . 11°s to 2ocs per cwt. Weald of Kent Sussex . Yearllogs .. . Bavarian American loos o .4 8 71 COLONIAL. TEA.—The public sales of Indian teas have been well attended, and previous prices are generally maintained. SUGAR.—A steady business has been transacted in West India, and superior descriptions have fully maintained former rates. In the refined market there has been rather more business transacted, only good common lumps are quoted 425. per cwt. COFFEE.—The demand for both plantation and native Ceylon has been steady, while superior qualities have in some instances realisedrather higher prices. RlCE.—Only a moderate business has been done, and quotations generally show no material change. TALLOW.—The market has been very dull, with a downward movement in prices. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 415., and last three months' delivery; 425. 6d. per cwt. THE TRIAL FOR MURDER IN IRELAND.—The trial of Richard Murphy for the murder of his sister Ellen at Ballybriggan, was (we learn by Electric Telegraph), brought to a conclusion yesterday by a ver dict of not guilty. The prisoner, however, was not discharged, as he has yet to be tried for the murder of his other sister, Anne, which will probably commence to-day. Among the recruits who have lately joined the 15th Middlesex (London Scottish) Rifles as privates are the Earl of Aberdeen, the Hon. F. Charteris (son of Lord Elcho, M.P., commanding officer of the corps), and Mr. Edward Ross, late captain in the Cambridge Uni versity Rifles. SERIOUS FIRES.—About four o'clock yesterday morning a fire broke out in the timber-yard be longing to Mr. Humphrey, in London-street, Dockhead, Bermondsey. The whole of the extensive stores and a dwelling-house were destroyed. The total loss is con siderable. Another fire took place in the premises be longing to Mr. Waters, a carpenter and builder, Black Horse-yard, Gray's-inn-lane. The workshops and the stock in trade, including the workmen's tools, were de stroyed. THE FAMILY OF THE LATE JULES GERARD.—The Duke d'Aumale has contributed I,ooofr. to the fund now being raised for the benefit of the relatives of Jules Gerard, iro,o*W r t , . 44 st - A , etrobr HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Feb. 16. Her Majesty walked and drove yesterday, at tended by the Dowager Duchess of Athole. Their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena and Princess Louise drove out. His Serene Highness Prince Leiningen arrived al Osborne yesterday. ___.o,_______.-_ The Prince and Princess of Wales The Prince and Princess of Wales dined wit h his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge 15st evening. Lieut.-Colonel Chatterton, of Coburg, Canaol had the honour of submitting models of imPove ments in railway carriages to the Prince a W ales yesterday. • His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge was honoured by the presence of their Royal Highn ess :, the Prince and Princess of Wales at dinner last evening °' f Gloucester House. Her Royal Highness the Duches s °, Cambridge, attended by Lady Geraldine Somerset, err' by early. The Prince and Princess of Wales, attended bi Major Teesdale and the Hon. M r s. Sto n or, arrived shortli before eight, and were received by the Duke of Cambride psts and Colonel the Hon. Jas. Macdonald. Among the gu;' f invited to meet their royal highnesses were the DU.' Clarendon, Lord Colville, and Colonel the lion. P er f ej Feilding. The Prince and Princess of Wales left a t past eleven on their return to Marlborough House. THE PRINCE OP WALES AT Tg° HAMMAM..--(This da3). The Turkish Bath, 76, Jermyn-street This morning, at about half-past eleven , 1 1 Royal Highness the Prince of Wales honoured `tilet once h his presence what we hesitate not to call at finest Bath in the World ! Meaning by th is , t- ,, e a Hammam, otherwise the Turkish or, perhaps e T - 1 , 1 more strictly speaking still, the Roman Bath , n l e some four years ago established upon a noble scath upOn a site in St. James's, the entrance to th is ba b y , being at No. 76, Jermyn-street. A casual passer would hardlyimagine from the look of that entallie. that it led to anything at all in any way reraarka4b.loo Certainly such afoot-passenger would form no t ie ‘„ whatever of the spacious, lofty, and luxurious 3:5: pearance presented to view by the interior. 619 ti, ing the threshold, however, passing through a t ag bule, descending a broad flight of steps, and r is : as . aside for a moment, on either hand, curtains' t a s pended at an inner door- w ay, the visitor, or , l e uite . say at once, the intending bather—sees befor e tite r' there, at last, at a glance, the principal apart ele- hie hall rather it should be termed, of a verita e ni Hammam of The Turks. Lofty—lighted from above--a fountain tinkling in the centre of it' the noble hall, of the Hammam is divided down its length of one-half of it (from the further at re l ta i e ) of it to the central point marked by the f° ll T t he by an oblong swimming bath, through wh ie ' ol d refreshed and reinvigorated bather, as the last h is the most delicious part of the process, Ina kes , a d passage, before being swathed in Turkish cloths se duly turbaned for a few last luxurious minu tes' r i e Sics on one of the Divans, before donning hi B „ c have and emerging again into the streets. Iv wo rd here got to the end, however, before saying 3 t of about the beginning. The very commen eelnell , the the bather's proceedings in passing betwee;ool- curtains upon the threshold of the outer or s lip • ing room (the great hall already described), is w ar • off his boots—to step (in his socks) across a lel ec t tition at that the entrance end of the hall---te n d one of the divans or raised recesses upon either 11,', within which, having divested himself of the Bather is cinctured with a chequered ..3145. wound about the loins by one of the attendetlier Taking with him, loose in his hand, sp rea d cloth of the like material and appearance, toise beneath him before lying down upon one of r e couches arranged around the inner or ShaMpoolll.! hall! The entrance to this inner hall is oo r tamed through swinging doors (also, like the at doors, very carefully curtained)—doors situat eu ; o the furthest extremity of the outer or cooling f f,, -. 1 1, before particularised. Passing into the inner 'ad agre eable the bather finds himself in a very dina soothing twilight, under a domed roof, his cloctiuoctii, • lighted, here and there, by arabesqued stars a _P r 3 o t . , a coloured lass like so many suspendedpatterns kaleidoscope. The divans, here, .„, are raised as in the outer hall, or cooling ouches, say depressed. Reposing upon one a these here heated snhere for half an hour's duration, in an atta °- .. vatur e of (not by vapour but by hot air) to a tenaPe' first o f 125 degrees, the bather's skin, ha yin %. ils "" ooze' all softened by the warmth, at last instead of bew to ore an a at the outset very gradually, afterwards m e , to his more copiously—with perspiration. own inclination, he can then, if he plea ca res c ares move into the middle hot room, or even n to do so into the hottest room—the former . , ore eS• a temperature of 150, the latter of 1 70 " e ea d of Still streaming with perspiration--saY at the battie r an hour's repose in the heating-rooms--theilooers, is then manipulated by one of the sha re r de Accordin„e re_ extra upon the raised marble platform orThe mediately under the dome before described. 1,080 softened epidermis pealing off, during this i P . t he of shampooing, in rolls or pellets on (- pressure of the palms of the hands o f the e a off pooer ! As much dead matter being elea r ro iled the skin in this way sometimes as cou ld beAPP le I up into the size of a walnut or a crab' con' Having thus been shampooed, the bather "ohie ducted by his shampooer into one of the r e ' •ced floored washing-rooms, where, after being of tepid plentifully all over with copper-bowls -f u -- e sur" water—bowls again an(l--gain replenished---;teer face of the skin is yet further relieved of W it , bl dead matter may still be left upon it or wit hin Or' cann e r, t he being rubbed all over with a glove a c- -- 4 „, r tv - Again sluiced abundantly with tepid "iv a "" el y bather is lathered from head to foot Vr itll %ire white lather of Castile soap, the lather being Iv bra' up creamily in a wooden bowel with a curious. able; or horse-tail of palm-fibres. Con3pleting 1 13 8 / .. s fa ll tions (after this soaping) with copper-how-ctain, by warm water dashed over him, again an d t hen a delicious deluge--the bather—there a nd " T•1;i" t the way (supposing this to be really his firstthe ° 5 : Bath) feeling himself to be clean for about ea , time in his life—the bather, we sat , qc cor ci : effectually cleansed, completes the process, oani elP ingly as he may feel inclined to complete i t, with either the cold douche, or the ee'fr aac t bath, or, best of all, for its invigorating em i bio J3 , (while yet at his warmest) a cold plung e ` .o oir l if ' hot !) into the swimming tank. This sam e tri g , 1 ! plunge into the swimming bath being really a lso dad a the delightfullest part of it all—like n othing re ss cious, sometimes, than—how shall we e%P Pr e c sensation?—well, just drinking all ove r "epose the ing at his leisure, after a temporall •01,„ his drying-cloths in the cooling r c ; a yo t a , bather leaves the Hammam, at the end cu- lit A couple of hours—feeling, for all the world 'ic P' ingly, let us say, as he may happen t o tbio lik e or much of himself—like a dwar f or scot l 3 giant refreshed ! Hail, rain, or sn °W ' ire blll, mist, or London fog—all's one to nun , c , r hell defiance then, alike to wind or weather, or cough, or catarrh ! Tt uk h ra l And it is this peerless Bath —th e ba t 11P iss Roman Bath in its very perfection —t i` 11 ,1 Highness the Prince of Wales has e n jo y-• it visited, and, we believe, thoroughlY few months ago H.I.H. the Prin ce l'% '; •"tlie sr ,1 3 1 0 may be remembered, availed himself o b .l aths )- ro , luxurious appliances at these very s ame has, 0111°01 Hammam, in Jermyn-street, by-the ay ' tlle,"ti , others, these very obvious advantag es ° 0 0 0- ,s of the Turkish Baths at Cairo, or at atii) is nople—that it (the Jermyn-street 1-101111,-,,irke9 tine it professes to be, but as the baths in -- the t 104 901 not—without dirty water running 011 _ fl ings f i r t h l y heavy moisture on the walls, plaisterof - 4 ,1 1 , ,0 the roofs, blundering pattens, or Not' s ' as N ye , ea t fact, very swarms of cockroaches. It is, in already called it, the Turkish Bath tahteit:crvidl --or just simply the finest Bath In