The Sun. — London, England, 1865-01-13 00:00:00

DEB, SERVICES. —During the storms of 'die past year 1884 the boats of the National Lifeboat Institu:cion have saved 432 persons from different wrecks on oar coasts, The Institution also expended £19,531 14s. sd. in the same period on lifeboat establishments , in addition to granting £1,569 as rewa rds for savin g 693 shipwrecked per ',sans by its lifeboats, and other means. The Committee of the Institution earnestly A PPEAL to the public for ASSISTANCE to enable them to meet the ,continued heavy demands on the Institution's 110 lifeboat ..establishments. Contributions are received by Messrs Willis and Co.. -Berries and outts and Co., and by all the Lcndon and ,country bankers C 0.,,; and by the Secretary Richard Lewis, Esq., at the. Institution, 14, John-street, Adeiphi. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. • (Opera Company. Limited.) THIS EVENING, THE BRIDE OF SONG. Renee, 3liss Thirlwall ; Beatrix, Madam e Fanny Huddar Laurence. ; Adel tert, XL Henry Haigh ; and Han nib 1, Mr. A. Conductor, Mr Allied Mellon. To conclude with the Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, er,titled CLNDEBEL.LA ; or, Harlequin and the Magic Pumpkin. and the Great Fairy of the Little Glass Slipper, u which the celebrated Donato Will appear. Commen e at Seven. A MORNING PE It I. 0 ItM ANC E of CINDERELLA next MONDAY, J an . 10, at Two o'clock, and every Monday, till further notice. IFTER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. THIS EVENLNU, the new Operetta, in one act, en tided PUNCHINELLO. Followed by the new Grand Christmas Pan.omime,'.THE lON AND THE UNICORN FIGHTING' FOR THE CROWN. HE ATR E-R 0 Y AL, DRURY-LANE, Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. Tuts EVENING, and during the week, A YOUNG 1,A1.) FROM THE COUNTRY. Alter which, the Grand Christmas Pantomime, HOP O'MY THUMB AND HIS ELEVEN BROT BERS; or, Harlequin and the Ogre of the Seven-League Boots : Messrs. G. Bel lmore, Tom Matthews, G. Weston, Master Percy Roselle, &c. Nisses Lydia Thompson. R. Lcclercq, Ste. ; Messrs. Bolen°, V. Lauri, W. A. Barnes, T. Morris, Cormack, Saville ; Bolen.), the Misses Gunniss, aad Signor Tescano. THEATRE-ROYAL,HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, Jan. 13, DAVID GARRICK. Messrs. Chippendale, Sothern, Buckstone, Rogers, Clark, Coe, Wea thersDy, &c. ; Mesdames Moore, Snowdon, Fitzwilliam, &c. After which, LORD DUNDREARY MARRIED AND _DONE FOR Messrs. Sothern, Buckstone, Braid, Gordon. Clark, White, Coe, Weathersby, &c. ; Mesdames bnowdos, 11111, &c With PRINCESS SPRINGTIME. Mr. Compton, Miss L. Keeley. And MRS. WILLIE. To commence at 7. OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Last 'Sights of Ruy Blas. THIS EVENING, to commence with MY WIFE'S OUT. Messrs. Widdicomb, Charles; Miss B. f..rcy and Miss E. lavcnu. Atter which, at 8 o'alock, RUY BLAS. Ruy Bias, Mr. Fechter. Messrs. Ryser, eitzpa.trick, Ch fie, Ill'intyre, Garden, Raymond, uollett, U ifford, Moreianq ; Misses Uar lotta Leclercq, B. Percy, and Mrs. Winstanley. To conclude with a Farcical Oriental Extravaganza, en titled BEARFACED IMPOS retts. Schanabaham (a pasha of three tails, Mr. Raymond; Mustapha, his viz.er, Mr. liarden ; Bill Stumps and Jack Hocui, quondam proprietors of the ori A iaal um ed happy family, Views. Moreland and "Yiddicomb ; All, chief guardian of the ladies ot the Harem, Mr. Collett Osman Khan, chief executioner, Mr. Bunch ; Achmet .Aga, an officer of the Sultan, Mr. Kelly; Mirza liajji Baba, chief keeper ot the monkeys, Mr. Regan; Ayesha, formerly Jemima Stumps, but no first favourite ot the pasha, Miss Lavenu; Fatima, second favourite of the pash., Miss B. re ; hhekerleb, third favourite of the pasha, Miss Travers ; Bette, fourth favourite of the pasha, Miss Watson ; Zenobia, formerly ba.nOu of the harem, chief wile of the pasha, but now discarded for Ayesha, Miss Hatca. Various choice specimens of zoology, guards, slaves, and attendants, by the numerous and talentea Smith family. Divertissement dt s Odalisques. Doors open at Half-past Six. The Box-office open daily from tlev,n till Five. NEW TiIgATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.- otge Yrupnbt.ir ana Manacier, is. vi THIS EVENING, ICI ON FABLE FRANCAIS. Mr. J. L. Toole. Al er which, at 8, LEAH. Miss Bateman, supported by Weser, George J,,rdan, Swinbourne, R. ruillips, Stuart, ,Stephenson, Eburne; Miss H. Simms and Nis. Langton. To conclude with DARK DOINGS IN TUE C - 13:- BOARD BY Tile rINIVEA BRO iiEltS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Paul Bedford , Yhill- pa , Billington; aim A. Mellon. Alias A. zeaman. Commence at 7. itOYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. 'MIS EVENING, a new Extravaga.nz 1, entitled THE MAGIC HORSE AND THE ICE MAIDEN I itINCESI. Alter which, THE STKEETs OF LONDON. Messrs. Vining, J. W. Ray, D. Fisher, D. Murray, J. Nelson, 11. Forrester. H. Mellon; Mrs. Henry Marston, Miss Emuia Barnett, and Miss Fanny Gwynnr. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress. Mrs. Swanborough. THI, EVENING, at 7, LAWRENCE'S LOVE SUIT. Messrs. Parselle and Thorne; Mesdames Palmer, Carson, and Hughes. MAI* which, the Grand Christmas Burlesque, THE " GRIN" 8U.z.11 ES ; or, the Mrs... Brown of the Missis-sipdi. Messrs. Stoyle, Thorne, ,Tomes, Fenton, Zze..; Nlesaames ..Lda Swakborough, itaynham, Simi son, Johnstone, Jzc. To c,nclude with THE WILFUL WAIID. Miss Palmer. C OALS. —The LT T J;TESHALL COMPANY'S WAL, Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis' 264. per ton. I Double.. 21 s. per ton. Top 25,4 „ De, p 22s. „ Well screened and delivered within live miles of their De pJts, Westbourne Park-road, w., and 17, South Wharf, ,e.addiugton, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Bcst Coke lss. per chaldron. Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, dole Agent THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " supplied, as soon as published every Evening by W. ALEXANDER (late BROOKS), Newspaper Agent, 21, ()id Cavenaisii- treet, Oxford-street. THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," t..outaining tile Latest 61'0ItTING Ora he had Every Evening of G. It. GLIsNIE, Nzwa AGEIST, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Ilyde-park. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 3h. 3m.—Afternoon, 3h. 22m. To-Monßow.-Morning, 3h. 42m.—Afternoon, 4h. Om. • s'l9lNi'-"A e N A ' 4,11 t 0 LONDON, FRIDAY, JAN. 13, 1865. The intelligence from our Australian colonies is interesting, though not specially important. The general election which, when the last mail arrived, was in process in Victoria, has of course long since arrived at its conclusion, and the result has been to send the Ministry back to the House with a large majority. This is said to be partly owing to the Hibernian propensities of the late Administration, which alarmed English and Scotch by installing Irishmen in all the comfortable sinecures. Those who traced their descent to other portions of the British race were therefore glad of the opportunity of securing a long lease of power to less exclusive patriots. In New South Wales the election was going on when the mail left, but matters were less harmonious. So keen was the contest between the rival parties that the Opposition refused to vote the supplies necessary for carrying on the govern inent during the interregnum, and therefore the Administration will have to undertake the responsi bility of making unauthorised payments. This task is the more invidious because the finances of the colony are in anything but a satisfactory condition, and the present Ministry entered office with a de ficit of nearly £400,000 left by their predecessors, to which they have ingeniously added a corresponding amount. This is naturally not a very agreeable position for the national exchequer, and conse quently the financial reputation of the Government is at a di scount. Happily the fortunes of this young and • et &lng colony do not for much °lirl give ground uneasiness• The relationship o f Eng land to he r colonies is just now the topic of interest in Australian circles, as it quarters of the globe. Although happily the great Southern continent has not h a au like the Northern States, watchingdgerous neighbour the her movements and coveting her territories, still e great body of the population are by no means i: e tb. n t b ib li e l e e i mother of the advantages of their connection w country. It is true that a party may in Melborne itself, where the question is b e i ng just now actively agitated, who put forward the old 1135 w _ argu ments, that so far from Great Britain being a pro tection to her children they are likely to become, through her, involved in wars with which individu ally they have nothing to do. The . se thinkers plead that the old days of unscrupulous aggression on weak states, merely because they are weak, are gone by, and that no Power would now dream of any interference with their liberties unless they had the plea of a war with England for doing it. They further argue that in case of such a war Great Britain would have enough to do to defend herself and her commerce, and that consi?quently her remote colonies must be left pretty much to their own resources. This party is happily in a decided minority among our colonists, and it is not difficult for the far larger body who still cling to the old name and the old ties to dispose of their arguments. The days of buccaneering may be over, but if we are to trust the experience of the last ten years, the days of wholesale aggression on weak and unprotected States are by no means numbered with the,rst. The Danubian Principalities and the Schleswig-Holstein Duchies are, one would think, sufficiently notable in stances to the contrary, and prove conclusively enough that right must still rely on might for mate4al support. The fertile and gold-bearing colonies of - - he Southern ocean would certainly offer as tempt- ng a prize to the cupidity of unscrupulous Powers, as the North American provinces would present to the eager aggression of the 'United States. Our dependencies had better not indulge in dreams of their fancied security when once severed from the terror of the British name, for the wolf never lacks an excuse for devouring the lamb. As for the plea that in case of war the mother country would be unable or unwilling to assist her dependencies, such an argument is evidently unsound, since what a powerful protection to her commerce would be afforded by the open harbours of the South. Sup posing th , :ties between the two nations to be broken, England would certainly not suspend her commer cial dealings with Australia, and therefore when a European war broke out she would be under the necessity of protecting this large and valuable branch of her foreign trade. By far the greater proportion of our exports goes to the dependencies of Great Britain, and surely the best way of pro- tecting our commerce is to secure both ends of the journey. Australia has often proved her loyalty to the mother country by her ready contribution of funds for the relief of exceptional disasters, and we have no doubt that if they were needed she would supply us with a troop of hardy volunteers to defend not only her own shores, but those of other parts. She has just furnished valuable assistance to her sister colony of New Zealand, and will at any rate be prepared to take an active part in her own pro- . tection. Despite any passing differences with the mother country, and despite their mixed population, the Australians are fully sensible of the blesSings which they enjoy under our Government, and the large amount of individual freedom and constitu tional liberty which they are able to possess. The histories of young communities generally show wild disorder and semi-barbarism, or the strict rule of a despotic Power. Our colonists, on the other hand, while enjoying an amount of public and per sonal freedom which the older nations of the world look upon with wonder and envy, live under an effectual and orderly administration of the laws. They have, of course, found the course of their self government not altogether smooth, but the fluc tuations of policy to occasional extravagance, and all other blunders which they may have made or be making are only part of that very necessary and wholesome experience which all States must acquire before they can govern themselves well and wisely. Thanks to their connection with this country, they have learned their lesson in pacific times, with no outward alarms to disturb their equanimity—no foreign foes to profit by internal differences. Should they be cast adrift and left to their own resources the case would soon be altered ; but, despite the ingenious logic of a small party on both sides, such an event is, we trust, still far distant. The separation from our colonies, however eventually probable, is far from being wished for by Englishmen, however much such an idea may be fostered by the enemies of this country, who desire to see her strength impaired, her influence diminished, her reputation lowered, and her com merce lessened in importance—all which events would he the more than probable results of a wholesale curtailment of our national dominions. Now that Parliament is almost on the point of i assembling, it is curious to observe how many M.P's , are rushing in to make their appearance before their constituents, and fire away their diatribes upon past and present affairs, and give their opinions upon public and political questions, good, bad, and indifferent. Mr. FORSTER has made a long dis course at Bradford, and certainly delivered an ex plicit avowal of his sentiments, without reserve or reticence. He plunged in medias res at once by entering into that vexed question, par excellence, the Danish affairs of last year. This matter, as he truly said, haunted Parliament from the beginning to the end of the Session, under the form of an enquiry as to whether we should or should not have interfered in the quarrel between Denmark and Germany. Although decidedly averse to a war, Mr. FORSTER appears to entertain a very correct notion of the faulty manner in which our Government carried on matters, of the empty bombastic tone in which they indulged, and of the humiliating position into which they plunged themselves and the country when they withdrew from their embarrassing situation. He also had the sense to speak the truth which his discrimination had taught him, and not to be bam boozled by the pretentious subterfuges which appear to have warped the judgment of so many persons concerning the inexpediency of driving this present Government from office. After the absurd statements that have been made respecting this alternative, it [s positively refreshing to find a member addressing his constituents in the following decisive tone :—" I must candidly confess, that liberal as I am, the question of whether the present Government would be displaced or not did not weigh very much with me." Had this idea prevailed to a greater extent it is very likely that a different result would have followed upon the great party debate and division of the session. A heavy respon sibility rests with those members who, believing public affairs are misconducted, persist, when the test is applied, in supporting the Government whose acts they virtually censure, and whose policy they are always calling in question. Mr. FORSTER found fault with the treaty of 1852, and declared that it was very unwise for the ambassadors and represen tatives of England and the other great Powers to meet and decide the fate of other people whose views and sentiments they did not know. So far as the event has proved, it seems true that it was an error, but no one then supposed that the day would come when the great Powers would repudiate their own words, and allow the stipulations of their treaty to be violated without attempting a re monstrance with the aggressors, that was of any avail, because t w he ould offe be nders mad k e ne to w too well that no effort verify the expressio n of • ,s t p m re o te t r th ec: nihil might well be ca ileodpiniEuonl. lIIT T' s 7o s I EL e : and bitterly has his country had cause to rue the day when he adopted it. Mr. Fo RSTER is quite against our meddling in foreign affairs, but he has discernment enough to see that the desired point has not yet been reached of gaining all public ° p in ion in this matter. Well may he declare that the intellect of the country must be convinced, and its conscienc e at rest, before it can change its course with regard to fo • z d t . he l N en ev gt e h r reig n aff a i rs, deside ratum has not yet been and that this saying uttered, for throZ o i of the land there prevails • and was b a r ea truerd th a universal feeling of condemnation concerning the ruthless manner in which our Administration led Denmark to suppose she would not be left alone, and the cruel THE SUIN4, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING , JANUARY 13, 1865. way in which she was deserted in her hour of need. Mr. FORSTER is quite wrong, however, in saying that our interference would have turned a local war into a general one. Germany would only have been too glad to retire from the contest, and to have relinquished an attempt which had drawn down the wrath of the two chief Powers of Europe. As for the " awful responsibility of our spreading the scourge of war where it would not have come without us," this is very false reasoning, and not all the right way to regard matters. As for Prussia, the scourge of war was richly deserved there, and the true principle to guide the actions of individuals and the policy of nations is to consider what is right, and leave the consequences alone. It never does any service to ourselves or others to palliate error and condone crime, and the schemers of Prussia will yet bitterly regret the false kindness shown to them by this country, when decision at the outset would have deterred them in their faulty course. Mr. FORSTER deserves credit for speaking out his mind, and not shilly-shallying over important matters, and he is the exponent of a view which many eminent and enlightened persons take ; but not the less is it a mischievous and mercenary one, and calculated to lower the tone of public morality, while it militates against the high and heroic senti ment that should alone actuate the councils of a mighty nation, and animate the heart of a great people. War is a dreadful thing, but disgrace is a worse one, and the true spirit which should actuate the representatives of a great country should be to regard their material interests as secondary and subor dinate to the primary claims of truth and justice. " I could not love them half so much, loved I not hon our more," is a fine sentiment, and one which it would be well.to see more generally exercised and freely appreciated in the community of our day and I . generation. The welfare of commerce, the flourish ing of trade, the prosperity of capitalists, are not to be put before the keeping of promises and the main tenance of our just influence, or, if they are, we shall pay a heavy price for their Usurpation. It is time that those ideas of honour which our ancestors cherished to so great an extent were a little more current among us, or we shall find that in grasping at shadows we have lost the substance. We must not expect to have all the sunny side of the world to ourselves. If we partake largely of the blessings of Providence, we should not allow the possession of power and wealth to make us hard and selfish, or we shall be abusing our gifts, instead of making them conducive to the welfare and interests of others, which is the only way to make them truly valuable. The Brompton Oratory. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. beg to forward to you enclosed a copy of a letter on the subject of Mrs. IVl'Dermott's case, which I have forwarded to-day to Mr. Selfe, the magistrate, at the Westminster Police Court.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, J. D. DALGAIRNS. The Oratory, London, S.W., Jan. 12. The Oratory, London, S.W., Jan. 12. Sir,—As by your letter of the 10th inst. you have de clined to allow " any verbal statement to be made in the Police Court," the only course open to me is, as you your self have suggested, to make a statement in writing to which, according to your promise, I doubt not that you will give the same publicity as you have given to the Rev- Frederick Blunt's letter. I conceive that lam bound to make this statement, and that you are bound to receive it for the following reasons : - _ With a candour which does you honour you have said hat ." Father Bowden's story is true in every respect, as ar as he has stated that it was the girl's own act, and no suggestion on his part." You add that "there is not the slightest pretence for saying that she has been coerced or kidnapped into this institution." You sent her back there yourself, and you advised the mother to leave her there, stating that there are strong reasons for her being there, which you cannot communicate to the mother. Such a testimony from a man in your position, who has seen the girl in private, where she could be under uo suppose "fear of the fathers," dispenses me from the necessity o. so far defending the conduct of Father Bowden. You, however, attach great blame to him for not having informed the mother of the girl's determination, and for not having asked her consent. You also say that "You do not believe what Father Bowden said respecting Mrs. M‘Dermott's character from mere hearsay." Now, I quite allow that I am bound to show cause for this part of his conduct. J. D. DALGAIRNS. 11. $. selfe, Esq., Totrainoter Folio-court. To advise a child to quit her parent's roof is a very grave act ; as a general rule it would undoubtedly be unlawful ; and you would have a perfect right to blame Father Bow den unless he can prove that that parent is totally un worthy to have the care of her child. This is what I feel I am bound to prove, and what I called upon you to give me an opportunity of publicly proving when I wrote to you. I conceive that you are bound to hear me. I still think that your proper course would have been to have allowed me to bring forward witnesses. In the open court you have attacked a clergyman, and evoked a cry of in dignation against him from a considerable and dangerous class of his countrymen. In the open court you should hear his justification. You administered to him what you yourself acknowledged to be an extra-legal, though very severe, rebuke. You have no right now to fall back upon your legal character and refuse to hear his justification, on the plea that you have no case before you. You have publicly constituted him a culprit. In public you should hear his defence. I, however, waive this point, and only leave it to you to give this letter such publicity as your sense of justice will dictate. I now proceed to bring proof that Mrs. M`Dermott is not a fit person to have the charge of her children. That proof will be found in the records of your own court, where Mrs. M‘Dermott was sentenced to hard labour in the House of Correction for seven days for shameful neglect of her chil dren. I quote from the West Middlesex Advertiser, N0v.12, 1859 : "Dreadful Destitution and Neglect.—At the last meet ing of the board of guardians for the parish of St. Luke, Chelsea, the master of the workhouse reported that the police had brought to the house three children, of the ages of ten, seven, and five years. They had been found on Sunday morning in an empty house in Camera-place, King's-road. There was nothing in the house but an old broken table, a broken chair, a coal-sack for a bed, no firing, and no food. The poor children had nothing upon them but a few filthy rags, and the youngest was all but naked. Their heads were full of vermin, and the heads of the two younger were absolutely eaten into holes.' A sister came to the workhouse on Sunday evening with a note from their mother, demanding that they should be given up to her, but Mr. Sutton, the master, refused to let them go ex cept their mother came herself for them. On Monday morn ing Mr. Sutton took them to the Westminster Police-court, and the magistrate, on seeing their condition, granted a warrant for the apprehension of the mother for neglecting them. She was taken before the magistrate the same day, and remanded to the following day, when she was severely reprimanded, and committed to the House of Correction for seven days with hard labour. We have been informed that the woman's name is li'Dermott. Her husband and the father of the poor children, was a blind man, and, it is said, was originally a steward of Lord Durham." Such is the woman whom the papers have represented as a sorrowing mother sitting at home in desolate anxiety on account of the absence of a daughter whom a Catholic priest had persuaded to enter into a conventual establish ment. And where was that mother living at the time that her deserted children were starving in abject misery ? I have no enmity against Mrs. M'Dermott, and I have no wish to blacken her character. If, however, you desire it, I can bring forward the inspector of police who was con cerned in her apprehension, who can tell you on his oath where he found her. In my last interview with you I informed you that, not being personally employed in the parish, I did not know anything about the woman's character myself, but that I should inquire among the fathers what was known to jus tify the opinion which I had often heard expressed by them, that she was most thoroughly untrustworthy. I have now given you a portion of the results of my inquiry. With such antecedents as these it is not surprising that the girl, neglected as she was by her mother, should be, as you know, in the greatest danger. I think you will allow that even granting that, as'you think, it might have been better for Father Bowden to tell the mother where her daughter had gone, this is an exceptional case, and there is a great deal to be said on the other side. He had, at all events, some reason for supposing that the mother would not have allowed the daughter to go to the House of Refuge. Nay, lam not altogether without hope that Mr. Blunt himself would see the propriety of the girl's aa l 'nadn countryhoe trh fortune C eor h f a w r ilhenos shamefullythhctasse rvb e Bowden, niecenog is ol convicted e following the advice even of a C a th o li c pr i es t w h o , lik e t tihne gratuitously pb,eyh s ii p hdr ending his life rather eenl a t . h w a sl n that aomf ini ceo) her g even certain that, if he had known the facts which you with perfect propriety have withheld from the mother, and, with the benevolence which characterises him, had wished to take measures to save the poor girl's imperilled virtue, he would have chosen that mother as his confidante. Perhaps he would have hesitated before he took up the defence of this woman if he had known that, since October last, she has written a begging letter to this very Father Charles Bowden, whom she is now accusing, while she was receiving relief from the reverend gentleman himself. On the whole, sir, with these facts before them, I do not doubt that the only public about whose good opinion we that of p u u it iti F na ath it e i r n C to h y ar o l u e r s slightest jurisdiction over him. BneoewddceanreOf Yarinsedilcreintcilousnisave;ewilthal power to rate him so severely, although you . had not the and for your fairness uring a part of the se proceedings, Thankistg you for dyour courtesy to the personally l r emain, sir, yours faithfully, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) SPAIN. MADRID, JAN. 13. The Novedades of to-day contains a remarkable article approving the abandonment of Santo Domingo, on account of the annexation not having been the spontaneous desire of the inhabitants. THE WEST INDIA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 13. The Royal Mail Company's steamer Tasmanian, with the above mails, passed the Needles at 12.5 p.m. to-day. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 4. The scheme of the General Credit Company, for the consolidation of the intended debt, has been under the further consideration of the Grand Vizier and the Minister of Finance during the week, with, it is said, a strong probability of its being enter tained by the Government. An important measure, both in an economical and military point of view, h4s just been adopted by the Porte. It grants leave of absence, during six months of the year, to all soldiers who have served a sufficient time to acquire the experience and practice necessary for military duties. An important saving—which forms one of the temporary economies promised in the the report on the budget—will thus be effected. Better men will be secured for the army now that the soldiers will be able for some months in the year to enjoy the comforts of home. The suspension of the SUBSCRIPTION conscription—a measure an nounced some time ago—is a corollary to the regu lations. The order provides that all soldiers and non-commissioned officers, who after having attained the necessary degree of skill in their military drill and instruction may desire to spend the winter season in their homes, shall be permitted to leave their regiments during that period of the year in which the rigours of the season prevent the practice of military exercise. Or ders to this effect have been forwarded to the commanders of the different corps, restric tions being made with regard to some garrisons of exceptional importance—such as those of Belgrade, Candia, Tripoli, of Barbary, and the frontier of Kolnstrin and Birana. The troops stationed in the latter places will be changed regularly every two years, and then only will they be able to take ad vantage of the new regulations ; the commanders may also apply the same restriction to the troops stationed in any place they may consider to be in an exceptional state. The conditions attached to the leave of absence thus accorded are as follows : Soldiers on leave join their regiments on the first summons by forced marches. They must on no account leave the Sandjak in which their homes are situated ; Those not complying with the summons will be treated as deserters, will be punished as such with the utmost rigour of the law, and be compelled to begin their military service anew. Those whose term of service expires during their absence may, on receiving their certificate, be placed on the reserve, and go where they please. Non commissioned officers on leave may take their due promotion notwithstanding. Soldiers committing offences whilst on leave will be subject to the civil law. In consequence of this regulation the Government will have no need of recruits during the present year. Orders have therefore been given to stop the conscription. FRANCE. BOURSE, Jan. 12.—The market continues heavy, and the limited amount of business done shows a further decline. Threes, for the Account, are now at 66f. 80c. Mobilier have receded to 945 f. Bail n. The market continued ft off as follows : Italian Loan 65 15 Do. end month 65 30 Ditto Threes 4O 60 New Mexican Russian — Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt Deferred way Market quiet but firn heavy to the close, and lei 41 per Cents 94 50 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 66 65 Do. end month 66 70 Credit Mobilier 9V 50 Do. end month Bank Shares Credit Fonder 1270 Roman 721 75 RAILWAYS. Cash. Acct. Orleans Northern 897 50 ... 990 Lyons and Mediterranean-- 915 ... 917 50 Southern 575 ... 575 Western 535 ... 537 50 Eastern Sardinian 3OB 75 ... 308 75 Austrian Lombard 533 75 ... 531 25 North of Spain 357 50 ... 356 25 Saragossa 430 ... 427 50 Ditto to Barcelona — ... BANK OF FRANCE, PARIS, JAN. 12. 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. Jan. 12. Jan. 5. Capital of the Bank 182,500,000 Profits in addition to capital (Art. 8, Law, June 9, 1857 Reserve of the Bank 182,500,000 - 6,958,526 09 6,943,047 76 and its branches Reserve in landed pro perty Notes in circulation Bank notes to order and 22,105,750 14 22,105,750 14 4,000,000 - 806,325,675 - 4,000,000 - 790,526,625 - receipts payable at 7,223,278 02 5,486,412 53 sight - - Treasury account cur- 91,374,473 44 89,69 0 , 497 98 rent .creditor .. " Current accounts, Paris 130,801,679 44 159,787,156 64 Do. branch banks Dividends payable 8,971,645 75 16,163,965 75 Discounts and sundry interests Rediscounted the last six months Sundries 8 Total CREDITOR. Jim. 12. Jan. 5. Cash in hand and in branch banks Commercial bills over- 776,718 29 1,654,647 53 due Commercial bills dis counted, not yet duo 344,821,315 78 359,616,36 85 Do. branch banks 33 3 ,36 9 ,594 330,512,897 2 Advances on deposit of bullion Do. branch banks Do. on French Public Securities Do. by branch banks Do. on railway shares 14,743,431 55 15,541,431 55 4,611,910 - 4,846,984 - 15,011,600 - 8,405,150 - 15,390,300 - 8;473;150 - and debentures D. branch banks Do. on Credit Foncier 28,483,100 - 27,364,300 - 17,852,800 - 18,191;150 - 541,200 - 402,450 - Bonds Do. branches Do. to the State (Con vention, June 10, 1863) 60,000,000 Government Stock re- 545,500 - 368,600 - 60,000,000 - 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14 36,696,737 91 36,696,737 91 serve Do. disporable Rentes Immobalis6es (Law, June 2, 1857) 1 0 0, 000 , 000 100,000,000 Hotel and furniture of the Bank and landed property branches Expenses of manage- 8,388,991 -- 83,806,692 - went Sundries 30,138 50 6,697 75 3,098,504 70 8,268,723 31 Total 1,305,844,335 27 1,331,572,487 18 (Signed) The Senator Governor of the Bank of France, ROULAND, La Patrie contains very curious details of nursery gardens belonging to M. Andre Leray, at Epluchard, near Angers, M. Leray's Gothic house having been the ancient maison de plaisance of old King Rene, father of our Henry Vl.'s Queen Margaret. The gardens contain 600 varieties of evergreens, 400 of coniferous trees, a most remarkable collection of Spora willows, and every novelty in the way of forest trees and new kinds of underwood. But the most signal triumph is the acclimatisation of the camellia ; specimens of this tree cover one hectare of land, and in many instances have attained the height of six yards, or rather metres—their magnificent condition and glorious flowers proving a perfection rarely attained in conservatories. Some of these camellia trees have out lived 80 winters, and endued 20 deg. ontigrades o old. LITERATURE The Dublin Review. No. VII. New Series. Burns, Lambert, and Oates. Judging merely from the current number of the Dublin Review, we might confidently assert that this old-established organ of ultramontane opinion is qualified to take rank side by side with the ablest of its contemporaries—with the Edinburgh, or with the Quarterly. But, let it be understood at once that we speak not here simply because of the impression produced upon our minds by an exa mination, and that, moreover, a very careful exa mination, of the individual number here submitted to our opinion. We speak not of Number Seven of the New Series, but of the New Series itself. We speak of the Dublin Review as it has now for very nearly two years been appearing under its present entirely new and certainly vigorous management. Whosesoever may be the directing hand that has at length contrived to rouse this once eminent, though latterly little more than respectable periodical from its late pro tracted torpor—it is certainly the hand of one espe cially well qualified to conduct a first-class quarterly as a first-class quarterly ought alone to be con ducted. Under this new direction, the Dublin has re-entered the literary arena like a giant refreshed. It evidences its capacity, now, if not to hold its own against all comers, at any rate to sustain any_test of competition that might be ap plied to it in the way of a mere comparison of its literary capabilities with those manifested by the very ablest of its immediate contemporaries. The Edinburgh, the Quarterly, the Revue des Deux Mondes, need not disdain henceforth to recognise in the Dublin Review (as the latter is now conducted) a " brother in arms and rival in renown" among the foremost organs of public opinion ! Among the organs of all parties, creeds, or divisions—Whig or Tory, Catholic or Protestant, Evangelical or Ultramontane. Able, however, though the New Series of the Dublin has been conspicuously almost from its very commencement about a year and three quarters since—No.Vll., the particular number here under notice, is so far exceptionally good that it is certainly the most varied in its contents, the widest in its range, and the boldest in its outspeaking. Even when we are the least disposed to coincide with it in the conclusions at which it arrives, we are constrained to acknowledge the ability with which its argument is conducted. Of this fact, the seventh article in this seventh number affords, to our thinking, a rather notable illustration. Its theme is "Thiers' Waterloo :" and it is a theme upon which the particular reviewer by whom it has been penned expatiates, we are tempted to say, with equal eloquence and perver sity. Everything is regarded by him, doggedly, determinedly, from one point of view. The bowl of his argument, so to speak, has a quite obvious bias from its very starting point. And in tra versing the space which intervenes between that starting point and the predetermined goal it is so manifestly and (again we must say it) so perversely bent upon reaching from the very moment of its setting forth—the writer knows' nothing whatever, from beginning to end, of (that path to a celestial El Dorado once dreamt of by Dr. Newman !) the via media ! Not, for him—as a student of Eng lish History, of French history, of European history, the benignant influence emanating from a sense of the juste milieu. His prejudices and predilections are always in extremes—even when, as the facts go, they might be seriously said to be in extremis. He has no cognisance whatever apparently of any middle course. He can recognise no other possibility in the pursuit of his argument than the going either to the right hand or to the left. Nay, whichever of those two sides might be typified as the side of England or the side of France (otherwise, in those days, Napoleon) is for him, for the time being, the Right side! Even though it were put after the paradoxical fashion of the rhyming celebrant of that famous " Rule of the Road" which declares— " If you turn to the left, you are sure to go right If you turn to the right, you go wrong 1" It is positively amusing to see how pertinaciously the Great Emperor is pronounced, at every individual step, at every turn, in every particular, to have been entirely and abso lutely in the wrong—his opponents, equally as a matter of course, being always, invariably, com pletely, in the right—whatever happens. In this there is no mincing the matter. And we are expected by the writer, with a thoroughly good appetite and a thoroughly good digestion afterwards, to swallow everything here presented to us, horse, foot, and artillery ! The object of it all being simply to invalidate the account of the 18th of June, 1815, as penned in what is, by the Dublin Re viewer, tersely particularised as " Thiers' Waterloo." However the result is such—with ourselves at least that so much, too much, is here said, and written, and argued, to this end that we rise from a contemplation of the Dublin Reviewer's view of what is termed Thiers' Waterloo with a stronger conviction than ever, that there is more truth in Thiers' account of Waterloo than we are at the first blush naturally will ing to admit as Englishmen ! And, besides this, that there was less of blundering on Napoleon's part, in his conduct of the cam paign of Waterloo, while there was, at the same time, a vast deal more of treachery towards him on the part of faithless and trusted followers of his, statesmen like Fouche, soldiers like Grouchy, than the adulators of the Modern Scipio are naturally disposed to allow. The ability with which this particular paper, however, is written through out, is, we repeat, conspicuous; though it is an ability marred, as we maintain, by its almost ludicrous one-sidedness. Among the other very miscella neous articles constituting the bulk of this new number of the Dublin Review, there is a very brilliant one upon an admirably well-chosen theme for an Essay in a Quarterly, to wit; "Madame de Maintenon." That pious, gifted, and illustrious woman, of whom Lord Macaulay has so truly and wittily remarked that she had so little romance in I her temper, while she had so *much in her life ! Francoise de Maintenon, born in a prison (the prison of Niort) in 1635, dying if not in a palace, at the least, in a palatial convent (the con vent of St. Cyr) in 1719—widow of the buffoon poet Scarron, wife of King Louis XIV., that Great Louis who during the chief part of his long reign was Lord Paramount of Continental Europe ! Surely a noble and a most suggestive subject for any thoughtful reviewer's consideration ! Although the critic's estimate of Madame de Maintenon's career and character closes here at a distance of some two-and-twenty years prior to the actual period of her death, leaving her when she was no more than sixty-two years of age, she who survived until she was eighty-four—up to the time here descanted upon, the argument, we may say, is full and exhaustive. " Rio's Shakspere" is an other reviewer's theme, and, in common with the two others already mentioned, will be found to be of very general interest. Another paper of some ability is the one relating to the " University Ques tion." Nevertheless, what we may emphati cally call the characteristic articles of the num ber have, after all, yet to be mentioned—two of them especially being arguments of profound interest and peculiar excellence. First and fore most, the opening paper of the number, a sin gularly eloquent, though no more than a merely tentative, exposition of " Holy Scripture in its Catholic Aspects." Few readers of the Dublin, we conjecture, will fail to recognise the master-hand that has with such an easy grace summoned so many and some of them such eminently suggestive beau ties from the pages of the Breviarum Romanum. The other article here alluded to, as one of almost kindred excellence, is the ninth, a paper within the comparatively narrow compass of which will be found comprised an impressive epitome of the career of the foremost Roman Catholic subject of the Crown of these realms the fore most, not simply by reason of his ecclesiastical position among his co-religionists, but view ing him solely in his character as a Roman Catholic. It can hardly be forgotten how very pointedly this fact of Cardinal Wiseman's pre eminence among his co-religionists in England was indicated only the other day—quite incidently, it is true, but, for that reason, none the less pointedly-- Iv Dr, John Henry Newman, in 1115 world-faraous Apologia pro vita sua. Of Cardinal Wiseman, Dr. Newman there spoke, it may be remembered, in terms eminently significant, of his being, in truth, facile princeps among his co-religionists. Speaking of what he regards as the harmonious continuity of Cardinal Wiseman's career, the Reviewer takes occasion, in the course of this paper in the cur= rent number of the Dublin to remark as follows : It is full of interest to trace out the early working of a mind which for the last five-and-twenty years has partly been mixed up with all the great movements which have restored the Catholic Church in England, and partly has led and directed them as their head and chief. We seem to see in them the germs of what we now see in its matu rity. And the bearing of it upon our present state is so intimate and direct, that we cannot refrain from notic ing it somewhat more fully. The first feature which strikes us in all that has come from the pen of the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, from his first volume of Lec tures to his Pastoral of last summer, is its perfect same ness. We do not see anywhere the changes, precipitations, the alternate advances and retreats, the modifications and uncertainty of judgment which characterize the public life and published writings of so many men of acknowledged learning and power. A certain steadfast growth always expanding itself from one centre, and always homogeneous and identical with its past, is the character of the writer's mind, Few men have written more variously : works on the Syriac language, on Catholic Doctrine, on Polemical Theology, on the Evidence of the Fathers, on Art, Taste, History, Biography, Reminiscences of Pontiffs, Poetry ; works of pure imagination ; essays on the most miscella neous subjects ; and yet in their great variety one mind pervades all, and one spirit quickens all—the mind and spirit of a true Christian and an ultramontane Catholic. From first to last there is no wavering, no uncertainty, no minimizing of the doctrines and laws of the Church. It is seldom that such'a sameness can be found tlifough a life so long, and so externated by both words and writings. This seems to be the peculiar benefit of a Catholic forma tion. And perhaps few men in England, at this day, have had it more completely. Born in Catholic Spain, reared at Ushaw, educated in Rome, where all his early life was spent, the Cardinal has never known what it is to have a mutilated faith or an incoherent theology. To the twenty years•spent in Rome must be ascribed the peculiar large ness of apprehension as to the office and action of the Catho lic Church, which has marked his whole career. Looking back upon it, who can doubt that it was the providential formation for the mission which awaited him in England ? There are two things which Rome does for a priest, and which we believe no other place can do in the same de gree. The one is to expel from the mind the national, local, personal prejudices derived from race, education, social usage, family tradition, and to give it a breadth, com prehensiveness, and variety in its appreciations of the Church, her mind, her instincts, her organization, her re ligious orders, her devotions. Rome, as the focus of the Universal Church, contains in germ all that exists through out Catholic Unity. There, as S. Cyprian says, " the Sacerdotal Unity takes its rise," and from thence every re ligious order derives itself ; to it all refer—there the secular and religious clergy live in an unity which arises only from a consciousness of their reciprocal needs and duties, and that the perfection of each depends on the other ; there, too, all nations have their churches. •` The nations of the redeemed," as S. John writes, "walk in the light of the Jerusalem of the New Law." Any one who has lived in Rome will have received an impression of the unity, and universality of the Church, and of the diversity of her spiritual creations, which will for life govern his judgment, and suggest a multitude of undertakings by which the the spirit and action of Rome may be reproduced in all parts of the world. Witness the last fourteen years in the Diocese of Westminster. Apart, however, completely, from the importance appertaining to him by reason of his ecclesiastical character, Cardinal Wiseman occupies, no doubt, a conspicuous position in the eyes of Protestant England, not only by reason of the scope and depth of his ripe and rare scholarship, but beyond that, by reason of his being a man of undoubted genius—as evidenced by his exquisite tale of FABIOLA—a tale in which his vivifying imagi nation has created a soul under the ribs of death in the vast and awful solitude of the Catacombs. Proclamation by President Davis, President Davis has issued the following procla mation respecting the attempt of Bennett G. Burley to capture the United States steamer Michigan : "By authority of the Confederate States of America : Whereas,- it has been made known to me that Bennett G. Burley, an acting master in the navy of the Confederate States, is now under arrest in one of the British North American provinces, on an application made by the Government of the United States for delivery to that Government of the said Bennett G. Burley, under the treaty known as the extradition treaty now in force between the United States and Great Britain ; and whereas it has been represented to me that said demand, for the extradition of said Bennett G. Burley, is based on a charge that said Burley is a fugitive from jus tice, accused of having committed crimes of robbery and piracy in the jurisdiction of the United States ; and whereas it has further been made known to me that accusations and charges made against the said Bennett G. Burley are based solely on the acts and conduct of said Burley in an enter prise or expedition made or attempted in the month of September last, 1864, for the capture of the steamer Michigan, an armed vessel of the United States, navigating the lakes on the boundary line between the United States and said British North American provinces, and for the release of numerous citizens of the Confederate States, held as prisoners of war by the United States at a certain island, called Johnson's Island : And, whereas, said enterprise or expedition for the capture of said armed steamer Michigan, and for release of said prisoners on Johnson's Island, was a proper and legitimate belligerent operation, undertaken during pending public war between the two Confederacies, known respectively as the Con federate States of America, and the United States of America, and which operation was ordered, directed, and sustained by the authority of the Go vernment of the Confederate States, and confided to its commissioned officers for execution, among which officers is said Bennett G. Burley. " Now therefore, I, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, do hereby de clare and make known to all whom it may concern, that the expedition aforesaid, undertaken in the month of September last for the capture of the armed steamer Michigan, vessel of war of the United- States, and for the release of the prisoners of war, citizens of the Confederate States of Ame rica, at Johnson's Island, was a belligerent expedi tion, ordered and undertaken under authority of the Confederate States of America against the United States of America ; and the Government of the Confederate States of America assumes the responsibility of answering for the acts and conduct of any of its officers engaged in said expedition, and especially of the said Bennett G. Burley, an acting master in the navy of the Confederate States. And I do, therefore, make known - to all whom it may concern, that in orders and instructions given to the officers engaged in said expedition, they were specially directed and en joined to abstain from violating any of the laws and regulations of the Canadian and British autho rities in relation to neutrality, and that the combi nation necessary to effect the purpose of said expe dition must be made by Confederate soldiers, and such assistance as they might, you may draw from the enemy's country. In testimony whereof, I have signed this manifesto, and directed the same to be sealed with the seal of the Department of State of the Confederate States of America, and to be made public. " Done at the. city of Richmond, on the 24th day of December, 1864. (Signed) " JEFFERSON DAVIS, President. ‘z J. P. BENJAMIN, Secretary of State." ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY, WOOLWICH.—In consequence of an article which has appeared in print reflecting prejudicially upon the character of the beer supplied by Messrs. Ind, Coope, and Co., of Romforj, to the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, that firm having memorialised the Commander-in-Chief, the Duke of Cam bridge, his Royal Highness at.once ordered an investiga tion into the circumstances, the committee of which was composed of the leading officers of the Royal Artillery sta tioned at that depot. The result of this inquiry may be gathered from the following official document :—" The Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief having caused the memorial addressed to him by Messrs. Ind, Coope, and Co. to be referred for the report of the Lieutenant-Governor of ~the, Royal Military. Academy, Woolw'ch, the Military Secretary has now received his Royal Highness's directions to forward to Messrs. Ind, Coope, and Co. the proceedings of a meeting of the Gentlemen Cadet Mess Committee con vened for the purpose of considering the purport of their memorial. A statement of the medical officer of the Cadet Company is also inclosed. These documents exonerate Messrs. Ind, Coops, and Co. from the charges they allude to regarding the quality of the beer supplied by them to the institution.—lioree Guards, Dec. 20, 1864," Cfpurt ..-N ttrtslar HER MAJESTY, ...--, - ,1,- OSBORNE, Jan. 12. Their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena and Princess Margaret of Orleans, attended by the Hon. Emma Lascelles, rode on horseback yesterday morning. • In the afternoon her Majesty the Quecm drove out with Princess Helena and Princess Margafet. Princess Beatrice and Princess Blanche of Orleans drove to Carisbrook Castle. ul Her Majesty the Queen, with the junior members of the Royal family, and attended by the ladies and. gentlemen of the Court, is expected to leave Osborne and return to Windsor Castle at an early day after the 10th of February, the anniversary of the Queen's wedding day. The Prince and Princess of Wales. SANDRINGHAM, Jan. 12 Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by the Countess of Morton, Lieut.-General Knollys, and Captain Grey, and ac companied, by Admiral Sir Henry Keppel, and Vis count Hamilton, attended Divine service at Sand ringham Church on Sunday. The Rev. C. B. Moxion, 8.A., rector, officiated and preached. The birthday of Prince Albert Victor was cele brated on Monday. Flags floated from the church and various buildings in the neighbourhood. The Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Lady Geraldine Somerset and Colonel Home Purves, ar rived on a visit to the Prince and Princess on Monday. Colonel the Hon. B. Fielding, of the Cold,streant Guards, B. Woodward, Esq., librarian to the Queen, and Arthur Helps, Esq., also arrived at Sandringham on the same day, on a visit to the Prince of Wales, for a few days' shooting and hunting. . The Countess of Morton has relieved the Mar chioness of Carmarthen in attendance on the Princess of Wales. On Tuesday his Royal Highness and visitors went out shooting, and were joined in the afternoon by their Royal Highnesses the Princess of Wales and the Duchess of Cambridge. The Prince of Wales, attended by Captain Grey' and accompanied by Viscount Hamilton, Captain the Hon. B. Fielding, Colonel Purves, and Admiral the Hon. Sir Henry Keppel, honoured the West Norfolk with their presence, the " meet" being at Babingly Bridge, on the Royal estate. The dal being exceedingly fine the field was large and aris tocratic, and the scene was very gay. The Prince of Wales will leave Sandringham to morrow morning, for Merton Hall, on a visit to Lord Walsingham. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge is expected to arrive in town on Tuesday next from visiting their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales at Sandringham. The Princess Mary returns from the Continent towards the end of next week. The Lord Chancellor arrived'in town on Tuesday from Hackwood Park, near Basingstoke. Lord and Lady Ebury are entertaining a large party of friends at Moor Park, near Rickmansworth. Th e company will separate on Saturday. • DEATH OF LADY BRouGHAM.—Lady Brougham died at Brighton yesterday morning shortly after 2 o'clock • Her ladyship had been staying at that watering-place sine° . August, and up to Monday last was in her usual health, se much so that she intended to leave Brighton on Monday next for Grafton-street. However, her ladyship was attacked with bronchitis, and died at the hour abovenamed. Lady Brougham was the eldest daughter of Mr. Thomas Edel l (uncle of the late Earl of Auckland and Lord Henley). I'M lamented lady was twice married, first to Mr. J. Spalding , of Holms, N.B. ; and secondly, on April 1, 1819, to Lora Brougham, then Mr. Henry Brougham. Her ladyship, wil e was in her 77th year, had issue by Lord Brougham tWo daughters, one born in 182 0, and who died in 1821 ; an ci the Hon. Eleanor Louisa Brougham, who died in the bleep ( ' of youth in 1839. The intelligence of her ladyship's detail was immediately transmitted to the noble and learned lord , who is staying at his residence at Cannes. The Earl and Countess of Essex are entertaining company at their seat, Cassiobury Park, Watford. Amongs t the guests are the Earl and Countess of Winchilsea an d Lady Constance Finch-Hatton, Earl Cadogan and Lad/ Mary Cadogan, Viscountess Dungarvan and Lady gall Hope Vere, Lord John Hay, Lord George Beauclerk, Henry and Lady Amelia Blackwood, Colonel Calthorr e ' Major Wombwell, Mr. Lumley, &c. Earl Cowper will return to Panshanger, fordshire, on Saturday, from a tour of visits. His lordsla will give a county ball at Panshanger on Tuesday Ile° On Monday a large circle will assemble on a visit to noble earl. The Countess and Ladies Cowper are staYri lh ' at Panshanger. THE KING OF GREECE.—Letters from Atlie o mention an incident which has produced a certain sensatioo in that capital. King George had appointed Goner' Kalergis, Ambassador for Greece at Paris, to be his gra nd equerry. This nomination, which in any other country' would have passed almost unperceived, met with a seriou s opposition, and gave rise to some discord among the gi eis ; ters. The King nevertheless maintained his decision, bu taking the circumstances into consideration, requested tIP. general to postpone his return to Athens until further orders. MR. SOTHERON'S NEW THEATRE.—We pool Post) believe there is some foundation for a reP°' which has gained currency that Mr. Sothern is about to b° installed in a new theatre at the West-end of London, in tended to be conducted on the principle of Wallacic.D Theatre, in New York ; and we also understand thl should this project be carried out by the influential a n wealthy gentlemen who have it in hand, Mr. Henders° lll of the Prince of Wales's Theatre, is likely to join him in th management. THE MAILS, &c.—Southampton, Thursday.—T he Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Syria, C 3 F t i A. Parish, sailed hence to-day for Gibraltar, Malta, ° Alexandria, with the Mediterranean and Bombay mails, full cargo, and specie, jewelry, &c., value 221,7391. 65., vl i '; For Alexandria—sovereigns, 14,000/. ; watches, 4701. 11°1 1 . Bombay—gold coin, 4,140/. ; bar silver, 183,800/. ; coin, 18,700/. ; gold thread, watches, and jewelry, 629 1 . The Syria takes out 41 first and4o second class passenge r !' and 40 proceed by the corresponding steamer from 3 1 ' 11 , seines, making a total of 121. Among them are Elle ls- . Lord G. F. Hamilton and Lieut. Molyneux, for Gibralt ar ' Col. Donovan, for Malta; Earl Dudley, for Alexandria Capt. Warden, Capt. and Mrs. Kirkpatrick, Major O t Penton, Col. Smythe, Rev. A. and Mrs. Robinson, VI; Pigott, Capt. and Mrs. Hancock, and Capt. Hanson, 1° Bombay, &c. The Hamburg-American Company's s crew steamer Borussia, Capt., T. E. Meier, left last night for Se w 0 York, with German and English mailq, 65 saloon addo large number of steerage passengers.from Hamburg, 1 1 ° 1 and this port, and a fair amount of cargo. SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO COLONEL D. C. LATOUC IIS ; J.P.—On Sunday evening last, as this gentleman was P ry ceeding downstairs at his residence, La Valee, Bray , 110 accidentally missed his foot and fell down the entire ,„,t heavily on his head, receiving, we are sorry to add, li e ",1 severe injuries. Dr. Darby was promptly sent for, 0 , succeeded in restoring him to consciousness. Two O n ° tors from Dublin were telegraphed for on Tuesday. '1 making inquiries at four o'clock on Tuesday we lean that the respected colonel was in a most precarious gat —Freeman. THE " TICKET OF LEAVE."—A striking ample of Tom Taylor's play of the " Ticket -0f Leave Man" is given in our Portsmouth news tl' i° o , week. A poor fellow had been convicted, for s, crime—whether he was driven to it from misfortunecil* from dissolute habits we are not told—and had obtaine d ticket of leave. He had since sought in vain for eraill °s :, ' meat, and at length, driven to desperation, he enlisted the 21st Regiment. There is no evidence of his behac i l in anything but a p ro p er ma nner ; but some how it lealo out that the man had a ticket of leave. On the disco'Oel the colonel of the regiment ordered him to be suunolthe, for obtaining a " free kit by false pretences." When t"-„, su mmons was returnable no one appeared against the 01'4 and a sergeant was sent for, who explained that it ''srij considered that the man holding a ticket of leave sv°ll,or not be able to report himself or go abroad. The g a) .o of Portsmouth very properly condemned the prtl etl of persecuting men who had once fallen in crime were again endeavouring to regain their lost characag and the summons was dismissed. The unhappy rO ll '. e f he left the court, appeared to be overcome with 'e; and well he might have been—poor wretch.— West Gazette. f e CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY BOAT CLUB.---- 23 ' " the years ago a subscription was started among pi College Boat Club for the purpose of raising a sum presented to the Lifeboat Institution for a lifeboat. -Lr'4o being accomplished, it was decided to name the boat," fi Tom Egan," after the originator of the idea, who wa si ;fjo merly president of the University Boat Club ; and boat being now ready, she will have her harbour tr'' 3 l,st , the Regent's Canal Dock, Liraehouse, on MondaY The lifeboat is 32 feet long, and is built of solid mr. ll°s She is to replace the lifeboat at Tramore, cotlntY Arl ford. :., An Aril tiv