The Sun. — London, England, 1866-02-10 00:00:00

LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the storms of the past year the National Lifebgat Institution, by its life boats and other means, contributed to the savin ,f of 707 persons from different wrecks on our coasts. The Insti tution also expended £21,374 in the same period on its lite boat eetabslimeuts, in addition to granting £1,950 for le wards for saving life and exercising the lifeboats. The Committee of the Institution earnestly A ?PEAL to the public for ASSISTANCE to enable them to meet the continued heavy demands on the Institution's 150 lifeboat stations. Contributions are received by the London and country bankers; and by the Secretary. Richard Lewis , Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GMIDEN. (Opera Company, Limited.) TIIIS EVENING (Saturday). Mr. Charles Deffelli's new opera, iu one act, CIIRISTAIN*3 k:VI4I. and Madame D. F. Lancia, Madame E. lliywood ; Mr. A. Cook, Mr. Miranda. Conductor, Dir. Alf re i Mellon. After which, at 8, the grand comic, sFeetacular, and ope ratic Christmas rall'OlniMe, entitled ALADDIN AND THE WON DERFUL LAMP: or, Harlequin and the Flying Palace. (See other advertisements). Commence at 7 o'clock. THE AT RE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE__ Managers, Messrs. E. lalooner and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, the Play of THE STRANGER. Mr. Phelps ; Messrs. B+rrett, G. Belmore, E. Phelps, Harcourt; Mrs. Hermar n Vezin, Mi,ses It. Leclercq, Seymour, Arc Atter which, the Pantomime, LITTLE: KING PIPPIN; or, Harlequin Fortunatus and the Magic Purse and Wishing Cap. Commence at 7. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.- Sole Lessee and 3lansger, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, BROTHER SAM : Messrs. Sothern, Buckstone, Compton; Mesdames Belly Moore, Snowden. To be followed by ORPHEUS IN THE HAYMARKET Messrs. W. Farren, Fisher, Ba-tleman, Weaihersby, 10. ; Mesdames Keeley, Snowden, Moore, Lindley, Woolgar, Howard, Wright, Coleman, Lovell, Prevot, Sze. To conclude with FISH OUT OF WATER. Mr. Compton. Commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM T H.EATRE, Under the bole Management of Mr. Fechter. THIS EVEIS'ING, THE ILLUSTRIOUS STRANGER. Mr. H. Widdicomb. After which, THE MASTER OF RAVENSWOOD. Mr. Pechter; Messrs. Jordan, Emery, Widdicomb, Vezin, J. H. FitzpatricK, D. Evans; Mesdames Ternan, Elsworthy, Lavenu, and C. Leclercq. Box Office open daily from Eleven till Five. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL ADELPHI, Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, at Seven, a new farce called PIPKIN'S RUSTIC RET HEAT. Messrs J. L. Toole and?. Bedford, After which, at 8, RIP VAN WINKLE. Rip (his 137th appearance), Mr. Jefferson, supported by Messrs. Billingtun, P. Bedford, It Phillips, Felix Rog€rs, Ashley, hburne, C. J. Smith; Mrs. Biliingtor, &o. To conclude with LEHIND TIME. Messrs. J. L. Toole, R. Phillips, Eburne, C. J. Smith ; Miss A. seaman, &c. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, QUIET LODGINGS. After which, at a quarter to Eight, IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND. Characters by Messrs. Vining. T. Mel ville, T. Mead, D. Murray, S. Calhaem, F. Villiers, J. G. Shore, G. Murray, H. Mellon, C. Seyton, R. Cathcart; hlloi L. Moore and Miss Katherine Rodgers. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Airs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at Seven (6th time), a new and origi nal Comedy, THE FLY AND THE WEB. Mes-rs. Par selle and Price; Misses Swanborough and Raynham. After which will be produced a new Opera Burlesque, L'AFRICAINE ; or, The Queen of the Cannibal Islan JD. Messrs. Stoyle, James, Thorne; Mesdames Swanborough, itaynham, Johnstone, &a To conclude with LENDING A HAND. Messrs. Belford and Turner ; Misses Simpson and Hughes. GRATIS AND POST FREE. E. MOSES and SONS' FASHIONABLE ALMANAC for 1866, List of Prices, with Fashion-card for the present season. MOSES AND S 0 N E• respectfully call attention to their large and well assorted stock of JUVENILE CLOTHING. 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Su PAKINGTON'S remarks are always worthy of attenti on and they are characterised by that moderation which is so important a feature in the speeches o f public men. The manner in which he brought ti question l of the Jamaica controversy before the lleuzy in which he was a very good in stance of the he treats matters re quiring discernme n t and discretion. The right hon. gentleman declared that while it was now prema ture to discuss the merit s of the cue, it was most expe di e nt that independent members sh ou ld express their regret and indignation at the course pursued p of the public press, at by a portion variou s publi c meetings, and by certain members o f the House. " Without really comprehending the details of the question they pronounceed judgment and delivered opinions with the greatest asperity. In this respect Mr. BRIGHT has been the greatest sinner, an d the censures which the right hon. baronet passed upo n the language of the hon. member for Birmingham were most just. The conduct of Mr. BRIGHT last night was perfectly disgraceful : he seemed to glory in what he ought to have been ashamed of, and contradicted Sir J. PAKINGTON when he suggested that the strong language he held at Rochdale might have been used in the " warmth of speech." Further on, Mr. BRIGIIT cheered that quota tion front his own speech at Bradford, in v 114 6% he declared, that "it murder bad not S 0 N'S changed its name in this country, he hoped that Governor EYRE and his accomplices would have to stand at the bar of justice for the murder of Mr. GORDON." " Who," asks Sir JOHN PAKINGTON, " who and what was the man thus branded with the horrible crime of murder ?" After having stated that he spoke without any personal bias, the right hon. baronet stated that he had heard Mr. EYRE de scribed as an " able, honourable, public servant, and if there was one quality for which he was dis tinguished, it was for the friendly hand and good feeling with which he treated the natives of the vari- ous colonies over which he was placed." All inde pendent and impartial men, to which ever side of the house they belong, and all lovers of fairplay in the country at large, will concur in the the truth of Sir JOHN'S observations, and rejoice that a protest should have been made in Parliament against the unwarrantable course pursued by a section of ,politi cians within and without the walls of Parliament. " I say," continued the right hon. baronet, " that it is a cruel and unjustifiable thing that any man of eminence in this country should address large bodies of his countrymen, and endeavour to excite them and lead them away from a dispassionate and calm decision, by making charges against a man like Mr. EYRE, such as those made by the hon. member for Birmingham." Passimg to the appointment of the Commission of Inquiry, Sir J. PAKINGTON expressed his opinion that such an appointment would have been ren dered necessary sooner or later, but he said, with great justice, that too much haste was shown, and added the significant declaration, the tone of which all must recognise—" I confess, sir, I am not free from fear that her MAJESTY'S Government was somewhat unduly influenced by that singular exhibition which is reported to have occurred in the Colonial-office between the Secretary of State for the Colonies and a deputation from the Anti- Slavery Society." In this suggestion the right hon. baronet very fully explained the real nature of the affair. All this confusion and misunder standing could never have arisen if the Govern ment had acted in a fair and honourable manner to Mr. ETRE. Mr. BRIGHT has never so committed himself in the House of Commons as he did last night. In his reply to the observations of Sir J. PAKINGTON he displayed a sort of bravado which was most unbecoming, and with the most consummate assurance reiterated his violent and unfounded statement, taking care again to talk of " Governor EYRE and his accomplices." It is difficult to say whether Mr. BRIGHT'S remarks are most irritating or most absurd. When he talks of the " atrocities" that have recently been perpetrated in Jamaica by the Governor and his friends, he chooses totally to ignore the fact that the blacks had com mitted most cruel outrages, and showed a deadly spirit of revenge. But, according to Mr. BRIGHT, we must believe that it is no sin or misde meanour to cut off white men's fingers and per petrate such like acts, but that it is a foul murder under pretence of law to call such miscreants to account. Certainly the hon. member for Birming ham has inaugurated his career in the new house in a very peculiar fashion ; but, perhaps, it is as well that he should show himself at once in his true colours, and let those have an opportunity of judg ing of his merits who think of committing them selves to his guidance. How can a man, who thinks to influence others, presume to talk such nonsense to the house as he did last night, when he said, " If law be not law to the negro in Jamaica, how long shall law be law to the working people of this coun try or to any of their friends ?" We protest against the course adopted by Mr. BRIGHT and his fol lowers in thus mixing up the question of the Jamaica rebellion with the working people of Eng land. Besides, he talks as if Governor EYRE had sallied out at the head of his troops and cut down all the peaceful negroes he found pursuing their ordinary employments. Again, when Mr. BRIGHT says—" I tell the right hon. gentleman that he has allowed his sympathy for Governor EYRE to weigh with him in this matter," how completely he forgets to what lengths his own sympathy with GORDON has led him, and how he confuses right and wrong, law and misrule, justice and oppression, in his vehement harangue. One portion of the hon. member's speech is very noticeable ; it is that in which he gives a hint to the members :- 4 , I believe, sir, that there is not at this moment a single Christian country in the world in which all thoughtful men are not directing their eyes towards this country to observe what course will be taken by the Government." We really are puzzled to know what the Govern ment can do now, for they cannot interfere with the decision of the commission, and are bound to abide by it. Perhaps Mr. BRIGHT thinks that when that ordeal has been passed that Mr. EYRE should be made to stand at the bar of justice, and be tried criminally. At any rate, it is quite plain that Earl RUSSELL has imperilled his Government and lost the good opinion of many, and yet not succeeded in propitiating Mr. BRIGHT. Mr. CARDWELL did not dwell much on the sub ject, no doubt finding it an awkward one, but he thought it right to inform the house that Mr. EYRE had always enjoyed a very high reputation. When Mr. CARDWELL first heard of the disturbances in Jamaica, he sent for the Governor of Barbadoes, who was in this country, to give him his opinion. His reply was, " I can tell you that, if the circum stances have been such as to alarm Governor EYRE, they must have been circumstances of great moment." He spoke the same to the deputation at the Colo nial-office, at the dinner at Oxford, and in the House last night. Earl RUSSELL'S course is con spicuously dissimilar to that of his colleagues. Never a word has he uttered of sympathy or en couragement to one placed in so awkward a posi tion ; but perhaps he dreads to offend the oracle of Birmingham. We have only one remark to make in connection with this statement ; and that is, that her MAJESTY'S Government did not show by their subsequent acts as if they appreciated the opinion of the Governor of Barbadoes. One thing must be said in favour of Mr. CARDWELL that he loses no opportunity of testifying to the merits of Governor EYRE. The alarming height to which the cattle plague has unfortunately risen during the last month or two has naturally enough induced all those more especially affected by it to endeavour immediately upon the meeting of Parliament to organise some plan for arresting its further progress. The deep interest and anxiety felt in the agricultural districts were clearly enough shown by the large numbers who attended the meeting held on Thursday morn ing at St. James's Hall, when fourty-four of the counties of Great Britain were represented. The leaders of the conference were determined not to lose time, and consequently the deputation ap pointed to wait upon Sir G. GREY to represent the views of the meeting visited the Home-office yes terday morning, and in both Houses the subject was referred to in the course of the evening's de bate. The principal object of the meeting was to adept preventive measures, and those present resolve 4 upon addressing, a petition to Parliament praying for an act to stop the removal oil.o cattl e for 4 ; limited period, to provide that all animals suffering under the disease shall be immediately slaughtered and buried in the skin, the owners being partially compensated, and further that any cattle which have come in contact with diseased animals, or have been in the same enclosure, shall be also slaughtered in the premises occupied by diseased animals; as well as all railway pens and trucks shall be officially cleansed and disinfected, and their use prohibited for a certain time. These measures are certainly stringent enough, and with regard to the transmission of animals from one place to another they can scarcely be too severe or prohibitory for a time. Had such regulations been rigidly enforced in the middle of last summer, all markets for live beasts, metropolitan and provincial, been closed for a time, and all removal of cattle, whether healthy or diseased, been rendered a legal offence, we should most probably have succeeded in confining the disease within a very much nar rower circle. Even now, though so much precious time has been lost, it would be well to adopt these precautions, and we may reasonably hope they will exercise a beneficial effect. But, when we consider the other measures suggested by the petition, there is more room for doubt as to their wisdom and ex pediency. The great number of animals which have either been in contact with affected beasts, or have otherwise been exposed to the contagion, is against the adoption of a wholesale slaughter ; while there have been instances, certainly few and far between, in which animals suffering from the plague itself have recovered. These cases have been so isolated and so rare that no particular method of cure can be recommended ; still they show there is a pos sibility of cure. It is reported that Lord LEIGH, whose Warwickshire herds were in danger of destruction by the rinderpest-22 having already fallen victims—has discovered a mode of treatment which has entirely got rid of the disease. We trust this discovery will lead to an improved and more successful mode of treatment, but at any rate it is encouraging, even supposing all infected animals to be at once slaughtered, we may very reasonably doubt whether we should succeed in extinguishing the disease. Epidemics have some mysterious mode of transit which cannot, we know, be exactly con fined by the limits of preventive rules. In many instances cattle have been attacked when they had remained quite isolated, and if, as some believe, the malific influence is really in the air, the wholesale slaughter will not avail us. There are, besides, some places which have hitherto enjoyed a singular immunity, as in one-third of the coun ties of Scotland, where no disease exists. There is another point to consider. The whole sale slaughter plan will necessitate so large an importation of foreign cattle during the next year or so that we shall renew the risk of infection from abroad. While there is room for doubt on this matter, however, there can be no hesitation as to the reasonableness of substituting dead for live meat markets, and indeed it is only wonderful that the inconveniences, dangers, and other drawbacks of live meat markets in crowded cities should have been so long tolerated. The question of compensation is one of the most important branches of the subject. It must at once be admitted and recognised as a national misfortune, and, as such, the whole com munity should fairly bear the burden. If animals apparently sound are to be slaughtered for the better security of other person's property, it is certainly only just that their owner should re ceive compensation for the loss. But it is the in terest of all classes to help any one class over a severe and exceptional crisis like the present. The Lancashire cotton famine affected the whole com munity, but pressed most heavily on certain classes; therefore the whole community united in assist ing them to surmount the difficulty. The cattle plague, though it is felt severely by all purchasers of meat, is ruining numbers of dairymen and small farmers, while even large owners are suffering serious loss. It is, there fore, no more than consistent that some means should be devised to lend some partial help to those who are so largely affected, and as soon as any plan can be decided upon, whether a system of national insurance against the plague, or of compensation for enforced losses, we have no doubt but that all ranks and parties will cordially support such a movement. It is the best means of dealing with difficulty to allow full and free discussion. Only we hope that no more time will be allowed to elapse without some of those preventive measures being enforced by law upon whose efficacy and expediency all parties are agreed. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10, 18C6. mountain than to return yonder to Cayenne to re ceive 20 blows with a whip at any moment, if no thing else." He then asked for a glass of brandy. It was given to him, but it had been previously mixed with water, of which Poncet complained, and asked for another glass of pure brandy. This was also given him. The Abbe Frolley exhorted him to pray. " I am going to smoke," said Poncet, and he then took up a cigar which was lying on the floor of his cell. " This cigar is not so good as those you used to give me, Dr. Berigny," said he to the prison doctor. The abbe confessed him, and said a mass, which could be heard by the other pri soners without their being seen. After mass, Poncet was delivered up to the executioner. When the latter was about to cut off his hair, Poncet said, "Don't be afraid of using the scissors. 1 have not much hair, but I have let my whiskersgrow." Poncet had on a handsome coloured American shirt, and he remarked to the executioner that it had cost him 15 francs. " When I think that I have only three quarters of an hour to live," continued Poncet, while his whiskers were being shaved, "it appears to me so droll, but go on." The executioner then took off the irons which confined his hands, and made him sit down while he took those from his feet. As soon as. Poncet felt himself free, he rose up gaily, and placing his right leg in advance while he pressed his body with his elbows, he said—" I know all that. I know how it is done. It is for the cords." He allowed himself to be tied without saying anything, having previously given a letter to Dr. Berigny, containing a lock of his hair, which he requested that gentleman to deliver to his bro ther. The Zouaves and Grenadiers kept the spot where the execution was to take place. The num ber of spectators was immense. Thousands had been on their way to the spot during the night. At seven o'clock precisely there was deep emotion among the crowd. The fatal cart was driven up rapidly. " Theves Poncet, theves Poncet !" issued from the mouths of thousands. He descended from the cart, supported by two assistants. The priest embraced him and delivered him to the executioners. His face was deadly pale and he was almost fainting ; he turned and bowed to the crowd and said, " I die innocent, God knows it." In an instant he was placed on the terrible guillotine ; the axe fell, and in less than four seconds human justice was satis fied, for Poncet had expiated his crime. Madame Listz, the mother of the eminent pianist, died a day or two of bronchitis, in, her 84th year, after a short illness. Her remains, after the funeral service had been performed at the church of St. Thomas d'Aquin, were conveyed to the cemetery of Mont Parnasse, followed by a large number of mourning friends. A new piece by M. Emile Angier is about to be produced at the Odeon, called La Contagion. The title first given to it by the author was Le Baron D'Estrigaud, but as the incidents turn upon some exciting events connected with cholera, M. Angier changed it to La Contagion. Such, at least, is the dramatic version of the piece, but I have not yet read it. The weather continues to be exceedingly warm, very unlike that of February, but it is rather stormy and windy. The growth of the buds has advanced very much during the last week. Loss of the Ship Diadem, from New York. SHOCKING SUFFERINGS OF THE SURVIVING CREW. The Board of Trade have received the annexed despatch from her Majesty's Consul at New York, reporting the melancholy loss of the ship Diadem, with many of her crew : " British Consulate, New York, Jan. 22, 1866. " Sir,—l have the honour to transmit herewith for the information of the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade a report made to me by John Harrison, chief mate of the barque Diadem, of Liverpool, detailing the circumstances of the loss of that vessel at sea, and the deaths by drowning and exposure of many of the people belonging to her. " The Diadem sailed from New York on the 6th of January with a cargo of petroleum oil in casks, and on the following day encountered a gale, which continued to increase in violence until the 9th. On the latter day a fearful hurricane struck the ship, which threw her on her beam ends, carried away all the masts, and swept everything above deck, includ ing the cabin and house, into the sea, and filled the vessel with water, reducing her to a helpless wreck. Four seamen named Wm. Hannan, Henry G. Spencer, and the cap tain's Wheeler,Wm. roswife,we r e Phillips i this lips G time washed into the sea, and drowned. The survivors now lashed them selves to the rigging, but owing to the severity of the weather on the same night, another of the sea men died from the effects of the cold and exposure, and shortly afterwards the master expired from the same causes. During the period of three days the survivors continued in their perilous position ; total deprivation of food and water being added to their other sufferings. On the 17th, about 6 p.m., the wreck was sighted by the barque M. and E. Rob bins, of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Captain Byron Robbins, master, which vessel after a delay of six hours, and with much difficulty, bore down upon the wreck, and succeeded finally in taking from it eight men who continued alive. These men were in almost an absolute state of helplessness, and were suffering frightfully from the effects of their long exposure. They were with difficulty taken on board the M. and E. Robbins, in the boats of that vessel, where they were received and treated with the greatest kindness by Capt. Rob bins, who resigned his own cabin for their use, and did all in his power to contribute to their comfort." The Consul adds—" Captain Robbins appears to have acted with great humanity, the preservation of their lives being no doubt due to his perseverance in approaching the wreck and perilling the safety of his vessel. The eight survivors of the Diadem's crew have been landed here in a deplorable condi tion, owing to their Jong exposure, and it has been necessary to send them all except the mate to the hospital. Thomas F. Keeling, one of the number, has died since, and some of the others continue in a precarious condition. All the papers of the Diadem, including the certificate and register, with log-books were lost —I have the honour to be, your obedient servant, (Signed) " E. M. ARCHIBALD, " H. B. M. Consul. " The Secretary, Marine Department, Board of Trade, London." The names of the crew lost were Capt. William Hannan (master),:Mrs. Hannan (his wife), William Hannan (nephew), Henry Wheeler, Wm. Phillips, G. Spencer, J. Hurley, and Thomas F. Keeling. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Friday Evening. Several of the Paris papers pass over her Majesty's Speech in silence, and those which discuss it are not laudatory in their appreciation of it. The Opposition papers complain of the reserve it maintains upon important questions of foreign policy, and charac terise its expressions upon the great question of Reform, which, they say, deeply agitates Eng land," as being very vague and tending to prove that the Government does not wish to compromise itself upon the question. Accounts from Brussels state that the Queen of the Belgians is in an interesting condition, and that in the month of July next there will probably be a new addition to the illustrious race of Saxe- Coburg. The Moniteur of this morning contains a despatch from the Minister of France at Washington to the Minister for Foreign Affairs at Paris, dated Jan. 23, which confirms the particulars already known of the capture of Bagdad, and mentions the measures adopted by the Government of the United States to prevent any infraction of the principle of neutrality. The Government has received despatches from Mexico to the 9th of January, but they do not add any new fact of importance to the accounts received by the last packet. The Emperor and Empress Maximilian were about to be present at some grand etes, but they had been countermanded in conse quence of the receipt of the news of the death of King Leopold. The fancy dress ball at the Tuileries was a very grand affair. Dancing was kept up till nearly five in the morning. About 1,000 fashionables were present. The Emperor wore a grey Venetian velvet mantle, and the Empress was dressed as Marie An toinette. The Princess of Hohenzollern wore a cos tume of the 16th century. The Imperial Prince represented Masaniello. The Princess de Metter nich was attired in a marvellous looking dress of olden times. The Countess de Castiglione, like the Empress, assumed the costume of Marie Antoinette. The Princess Mathilde was at tired as a lady of Roumania. Perhaps the dresses which excited the most admiration were those of the Mesdames Rothschild, which were costly, magnificent, and beautiful ; one was com posed of various colours, the other was white. The most remarkable dresses of the gentlemen were those of the Marquis de Gallifet, who was en Mioliton ; M. de Choiseul, as Time, with his scythe ; and M. Edmond Dolpms, as a Swiss captain. A very splendid supper was served at two, after which dancing was resumed. I supply some additional particulars of interest relative to the execution of Poncet, furnished by a gentleman who had access to the prison. At half past four in the morning the Abbe Frolley went into Pon cet's cell to announce the melancholy intelli gence to him that he had but a short time. to live. When Poncet beard the announcement he became exceedingly agitated and turned very pale, but he almost instantly recovered his self-possession, and " In fact it is better to lose one's kiwi on the State of Trade. MANCHESTER, Feb. 9.—After the dull market of Tuesday last many shippers of yarns commenced buying, and have continued to do so daily. The amount of business done in three days, including to-day, has been very considerable, and some large parcels have been taken out of this branch of the market. With all the business doing, however, the advance in prices has been very trifling, spinners meeting the demand very freely, quitting stocks and engaging themselves for new contracts pretty deeply at the current rates ; but the market closes better, with a strong feeling. For home trade yarns the market is also a little better, and ht a slight advance upon Tuesday's prices buyers are disposed to go on operating, but the advance for which spinners are holding is checking business. For cloth a fair demand has sprung up since Tuesday in most descriptions of cloth, and especially in such as are suitable to India. Yesterday a very considerable business was done for most kinds of cloth. To-day there has been a falling off in the demand again, and there is a very general feeling existing, notwithstanding the large business reported in cotton at Liverpool, against further operations of any magnitude. This feeling takes its origin from the three or four days' later advices from America recently to hand, as well as late advices from India, reporting increased receipts of cotton to hand on the seaboard of both countries. NOTTINGHAM, 9th.._..W e bad a tolerable attend ance at ourExchange-hallto-day, and a fair amount of business was transacted. The demand for lace yarns was firm, and fine numbers made extreme prices ; for coarse ditto an advance of Id. per lb. wad Toased. eAI4 very firm, but not much doing._ LA TEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) ROME. MARSEILLES, FEB. 10. Letters from Rome to the 7th inst. give the speech of the Pope at the English college, in which his Holiness mentioned the prosperity and greatness of England, but regretted that she should have been forgetful of her glorious title of the Holy Island. The Pope hoped that her immense possessions and boasted institutions would serve the cause of the true faith. Several English Catholic prelates and other dis tinguished persons were present. SWEDEN. STOCKHOLM, FEB. 10. The Franco-Swedish treaty of commerce has been agreed to by all the four Chambers of the Swedish Parliament ; by the burghers and peasants on Wednesday, by the clergy on Thursday, who, how ever, attached thereto a motion of blame to the Government for having prepared it ; and by the nobles yesterday. The debates on the treaty were most violent. GREECE. ATHENS, FEB. 7. A new Cabinet has been formed, of which the following are the members : .. President of the Ministry and Minister of Public Worship M. ROUFOS. and Justice Interior M. PROVELEGIOS, Finance. Foreign Affairs War Marine M. SAHINIS. SPAIN. MADRID, FEB. 9 (Evening). It is stated that the Budget for the financial year 1865-66 will be laid before the Congress to-morrow, and that it will show a reduction on the preceding Budget of 100 millions of reals. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIA MAILS. GIBRALTAR, FEB. 9. The Mongolia, from Southampton, on the 4th instant, arrived here to-day at noon, and leaves at 3 p.m. for Alexandria. She experienced bad weather to Finisterre. All well. FRANCE. PARIS, FEB. 10. The debate on the address was resumed yester day in the Senate. The sitting was almost entirely occupied by a speech from M. de Boissy, violently attacking England. M. de Boissy was frequently interrupted by the President and by expressions of disapproval from the Senators and the Government Commissioners. The general debate on the address is now closed, and the discussion of the separate paragraphs of the address will begin on Monday. BOURSE, Feb. 9.—Three o'clock—The following are the last quotations:- 4f per Cents 9B 65 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 6B 70 Do. end month 6B 774 Credit Mobilier 652 50 Do. end month 667 50 Bank Shares 3720 Credit Foncier 1310 Italian Loan 6l 10 Do. end month 6l 25 RAIL Roman 7O Ottoman Fives 39 50 Mexican Loan 46 Do. Bonds 236 25 Russian — Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt Deferred 'ATE. Orleans Northern Cash. Acct. ... -- ... 853 75 ... ... 1107 50 ... ... b6O - - ... 542 50 - - ... 532 50 - - ... 150 - - - ... 402 50 - - ... 392 50 - - ... 165 - - - ... 212 50 ..- - ... 115 -- Lyons and Mediterranean. SOuthern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard ... North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona Roman JAMAICA. LIVERPOOL, Friday Evening. The West India and Pacific Steamship Company's steamer European arrived here this evening. On the 11th January an extraordinary session of the Assembly was opened at Spanish Town, and the following speech was delivered by Sir Henry Storks : ,‘ I have requested your attendance here to-day in an extraordinary session, aud, I am afraid, at some inconvenience to yourselves, for the purpose of submitting to you a bill to provide certain statutory powers which will enable Royal Com missions to compel the attendance of witnesses, and to examine them on oath under a Royal Commission about to be issued by her Majesty the Queen, for an inquiry into the origin, nature, and circumstances of the late disturbances in this island, and with respect to measures adopted for the sup pression of the same. The bill was placed before you without delay, and I confidently trust in your wisdom and prudence to give the Royal Commis sioners such powers as will facilitate the inquiry ordered by her Majesty." In reply to this speech, the following address was returned by the Assembly : 6 , We thank your Excellency for your speech at the opening of the present session. It is our anxious desire that the most searching inquiry should be in stituted into the origin, nature, and circumstances of the late disturbance in this island, and with re spect to the measures adopted for the suppression of the same, and it is satisfactory to us to find that her Majesty has selected so able an administrator as your Excellency to preside over the Commission appointed for that purpose. We shall be prepared to aid your Excellency in the carrying out of the object contemplated, and to that end will give the Commission such statutory powers as appear neces sary to facilitate and render efficient this important inquiry." Ultimately the following bill was introduced by Mr. Westmoreland, a member of the Government, and, after considerable opposition, it passed the seeond reading, and was committed : " Whereas, the origin, nature, and circumstances of the late disturbances in this island, and the mea sures adopted for the suppression of the same, are about to be investigated by a Royal Commission for that purpose ; and whereas, for the effectual prose cution of such inquiry, it is expedient that her Majesty's Commissioner or Commissioners of such inquiry should examine witnesses upon oath, and enforce the attendance of necessary witnesses ; be it, and it hereby is enacted by the Governor, Legis lative Council, and Assembly of Jamaica, " 1. That every commissioner appointed by her Majesty for the purpose aforesaid shall have power to summon and to enforce the attendance of any witnesses whom he may deem necessary for such inquiry, and to examine him, upon oath, before such commissioner or board of commissioners as her Majesty to that end may appoint or direct. "2. That any witness knowingly or wilfully giving false evidence, upon bath, on such inquiry, shall be deemed for all purposes to be guilty of wilful and corrupt perjury, and be liable to the penalties thereof. " 3. That no privilege or exemption from giving evidence on the ground of official confidence shall preclude or prevent Her Majesty's Commission, or Board of Commissioners, from insisting on exacting the evidence of any witness. " 4. That it shall be lawful for her Majesty's Commission or Board of Commissioners to direct payment to any witness of his reasonable travelling and other expenses from the island treasury, unless the same shall have been provided for out of the Treasury of the United Kingdom." The House was to meet again on the 18th, when another deb Ate wotgcl prolAbly ex* 011 the Banae subject ; but there was little doubt of the passing of the measure. Governor Eyre had retired to his country house at Hamstead, and there awaited the Commission. The prisoners from Morant Bay and Port Antonio, for trial before the legal Commission, were being brought up when the European left, with the wit nesses against them. The members of the Commission were expected to arrive about the 20th of January. In anticipation of further disturbances, the police in all the recently-disturbed districts have been re inforced. IRELAND. - DUBLIN, Feb. 9. We have got a new Fenian trial in Dublin, but it is to be hoped not the beginning of a new series. There was a court-martial held yesterday at the Royal Barracks, to try a gunner, John Flood, " for conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline," in leaving at liilsea, on the 13th Sept., 1865, written a letter to the Irish People. The following is a copy of this letter, which was certainly well calculated to encourage the delusion of the conspirators connected with that journal : Hilsea Barracks, near Portsmouth, Sept. 15, 1865. Sir,—l beg to request you will send me by return of post your valuable paper called the Irish People, as there is great talk of that noble society called the Fenian Brother.. hood. I can assure you that every Irishman in the British army is watching with eager attention the movements of that fine society. I got one from home some time since, and I can assure you that there was dozens coming to me for the lond of it, whom I told that I had it. I have to In form you that the Channel Fleet left here foi Ireland to watch them, and to blockade the ports ; the people of the country trates that society with redicule ; I have read this week in the paper about too of them comming from the county Clare into Limerick, and of their marching through the streets ; we hope that when the day comes they will do wat's their intention, and we also hope the wont act as the did at the battle of the Boyne. The people of the Emerald Isle lost a good chance when the Crimean war was raging. That was the time for her sons to have another Clontarf. Will you be so kind as to let me know whether you will send me your valuable paper weekly, monthly, or quar terly, and the price of it, as I should be most happy for to have it. Sir, I have not much to say to you this time, but I remain yours truly, watching that happy day, ONE OP THE IRISH BRIGADE. Direct to Gunner John Flood, G Battery, 9 Brigade, Royal Artillery, Hilsea Barracks, Ilampstea,d, England. The expressions in this letter, the prosecutor said, proved the writer to be unfaithful to his oath and a traitor to the Queen. He quoted an article which appeared in the Irish People on the 2d of January, 1864, very similar to the letter sent by the prisoner, and containing these words : During the early stages of the Crimean war the country was stripped of troops; but an unprepared people could do nothing. The opportunity came in vain. . . . But the opportunity comes and goes, leaving the unprepared Irish people just as it found them. When the crisis was over people began to wake up, and find that they had let a first rate chance slip through their fingers. At the conclusion of the statement Acting-In spector Hughes was examined as to the seizure of the Irish People and the letters found in the office, including the one signed by the prisoner, which he identified. Capt. 'l'. E. Byrne, R.A., proved that the letter was in the handwriting of the prisoner. It bore the post-mark " Hilsea Barracks." Pearce Nagle was examined to prove the existence of the Fenian conspiracy. The witnesses were cross-examined by the pri soner's counsel, and by the prisoner himself. The prosecutor read a number of extracts from articles published in the Irish People, after which the Court adjourned to this morning. Thomas Barry, the person arrested at the Fenian ammunition factory in Great Britain-street, was brought up before the magistrate at the Capel-street Police-office yesterday. The prisoner is apparently about 36 years of age, and there was a kind of dar ing and desperate coolness in his manner that was most striking. His clothes, which were originally black, bore the marks of having been exposed to hard usage in a forge, and his hair and beard, of a semi -red, were tangled around his head and face. The several officers of the police having detailed in evi dence the particulars of the seizure which have already appeared, Mr. Leon indentified the prisoner as one of two men who took the premises at the rear of the house on the 3d of January, at a rent of ss. per week. One of th• men said that he wanted the lower part of the stable for a brass-smith's forge, and Barry said that he wanted the loft as a cabinetmaker's workshop. The presiding magi strate decided on remanding the prisoner for further examination. Dublin detectives are on watch at the Bray Rail way station to prevent the importation of arms into the county of Wicklow, which is not proclaimed. It is reported that a body of armed men on Wednesday night fired shots through the drawing room windows of Mrs. Caulfield, of Pallaskenry, widow of the late General Caulfield. No person was injured. The cause assigned for the outrage is that Mrs. Caulfield had caused notice of eject ment to be served on a tenant. A man named Goulding was accidentally killed on Wednesday night on tie Waterford and Lime rick Railway, the head being completely severed from the body by an outgoing train. The Fitzgerald will case, which has already occu pied 14 days, still proceeds. Yesterday Mr. Brew ster, Q.C., finished his speech, after which the fol lowing witnesses were examined to prove the inca pacity of the late baronet :—General Sir Francis Macnamara, Captain Augustus Butler, Dr. C. Fleming, who attended the testator professionally ; Mr. R. W. Studdert, who had been made a trustee of the deed without his knowledge or consent, and Dr. P. Cullen, a practising physician at Ennis, who hadvisited the deceased at his residence in the coun try. The witnesses deposed to a great change in Sir Edward's habits about ten years ago. From being very neat in his person and dress, he became slovenly and unclean, while his conversation and behaviour rendered him unfit for respectable society. He was generally intoxicated in the forenoon. He was also afflicted with kleptommlia, taking home from the club envelopes, a snuff-box, or anything that came handy to him. On one occasion Dr. Cullenan missed his spectacles at the Ennis Club-house, and suspecting Sir Edward, followed him to a grocer's, where he found them on his nose. Friday Evening. To-day the police discovered another extensive manufactory of ammunition in a small house in South Earl-street. All the materials for making Minie rifle cartridges were present in abundance ; conical bullet moulds, powder measures, small tun dishes, shapes, and paper cut in the requisite pat tern. In two boxes the officers found no less than 1,260 cartridges, the greater number of which were fully prrpared for Minie rifles. The police have ascertained that over £6OO a week has been paid to persons working in those ammunition factories in this city ; four have been discovered, but it is be lieved there are many more, and that vast quantities of ammunition have been distributed through the city and country generally. A man named Hayden was arrested on the premises. He was brought up to-day before Mr. M'Dermot at the Head-office and remanded. John Carey, an alleged Fenian Centre from Mallow, county of Cork, was also brought before the same magistrate, and remanded. A per son, thought to be Stephens, disguised as a beggar, has been arrested and imprisoned at Thurles, pend ing inquiries as to his identity. The trial of Gunner John Flood was continued to-day, and has been adjourned till Monday next. Colour-Sergeant Lynch was then put on his trial for mutinous and insubordinate conduct. The pri soner pleaded " Not Guilty." The Earl of Clonmel died on Wednesday at Bishop's Court, county of Kildare, in the 50th year of his age. His son, Lord Earlsfort, succeeds to the title and estates. GREAT STORM AT Bo ULOGNE.—lntelligence from Boulogne states that terrible weather has been experienced there for the last few days. On Monday morning, at a quarter to two, a thunderstorm suddenly burst over the town with great violence. Several cottages atPontßriques and La Capelle were struck by the electric fluid and some live stock killed. In one instance the inmates were actu ally hurled from their beds, but escaped wonderfully. On Wednesday night the wind blew a perfect hurricane from the S.W. to S.E. A schooner, the Tamar, laden with stone from Pl 3 mouth, is a total wreck at that fatal spot of the coast, Wimereux, where the St. George was lost, and as in h """ all LaAde Perished. Wry eamltits Are expected. z (curt tutitilia44 HER MAJESTY• OSBORNE, Friday. Her Majesty drove out yesterday morning, ac companied by their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena, Princess Louise, and Prince Leopold, and in the afternoon with her Royal Highness Princess Louise. The Prince and Princess of Wales. The Prince of Wales, attended by Major Tees dale, hunted with his harriers near Langley yes terday. The Princess of Wales took a carriage drive attended by the Countess of Macclesfield. Their Royal Highnesses went to the Lyceum Theatre in the evening. The Late Gale. DEAL, Thursday Night. During a heavy gale from the westward yester" day morning, and a tremendous sea, the ship 1011 Crown of Liverpool, bound from Shanghai for London with a cargo of tea, went ashore on th e outer edge of the Goodwin Sands, about two miles south of the beacon. She fired signal guns of dis' tress, but they were not heard front the shore, and the weather being very thick the ship was not seen for some time, As soon as the distressed vessel WO observed the Walmer Lifeboat of the National Life boat Institution went off to her, but getting to lee ward she had to work to windward against a heavy sea, and did not reach the vessel until one o'clock p.m. Meanwhile the North Deal lifeboat, the Van Rook, which also belongs to the National Lifeboat Institution, had put out, and had arrived alongside the ship, which was then in charge of a Deal lugger. Soon after three steam tugs arrived, and fortunately by the joint help thus afforded the ship was got off the sand when the next tide rose, and was towe d into Margate Roads, with the loss of two anchor s and chains, which were left in the sands. The two lifeboats then returned to the shore. Both boats are reported to have behaved admirably in the broken water on the Goodwin, although they shipped some very heavy seas. KIRKCUDBRIGHT, N. 8., Feb. 7. Mr. S. Cavan reports that the brigantine Isabella, of Waterford, went ashore on the Melton Sands, on the river Dee, a few days since, and was in a position, of great danger. She beat heavily, and made a great deal of water. Immediately the news reached Kirk cudbright, the lifeboat of the National Lifeboat In' stitution was promptly launched, and after a hard pull of two hours reached the vessel, which by th i " time was about half a mile from the westward sho re of the river, which is a bold rocky coast, and upon which she must have inevitably have gone to pieces had her remaining ancho r d ragge d. Th e cre w w ould have left the vessel long before the arrival of th e lifeboat in their own boat, but they durst not at' tempt it, the Fea being so heavy. Fortunately th e vessel ultimately floated, and by th e assistance of the lifeboat crew was taken to a place of safety. Great Fire at Hull. Hull has been visited with another terrible Cala mity by fire. The scene of the conflagration was large oil mill, the property of Messrs. Wrig ht Brothers, corn merchants, &c. The m ill, which wa s perhaps the most imposing structure of its kind in Hull, is situate in Trippett, one front of the Pre mises facing the river Hull. It is familiarly known as Cato mill, and is a lofty and massive building; It was fitted with machinery for seed crushing, an d the manufacture of oil cake, and these mills are kept, with the exception of Sunday, constantly running day and night. On Thursday evening, at a few . minutes after 10, during a temporary cessation, in which the hands were taking refreshment, the wi ll was discovered to be on fire in one of the middle storeys. An alarm was instantly raised, but as all the materials were of an inflam mable nature, many of them highly combustible, before any aid could be rendered the pile was evi dently doomed to destruction. The men who ar e employed on the premises did the best they could under the circumstances by at once removing oil casks, and whatever could b e go t ou t o f the wag , the flames. The rapidity with which the flames rose from storey to storey was astounding. In but a fe w minutes they seemed to have the complete mastery of the whole building. The mill proper is built itt ,, the form of a martello to wer , it s grea t height 0'; castellated appearance making it a most promin ° object in that part of the town. What its aPPear ance was when every window to the topmost storey was pouring forth a stream of flame it is not easi convey in words. The whole town was illumina ted. t „ The fire-engines were early on th e s p o t, served by a large body of police, and appa r ently copiou sly supplied with water, but th e y cou ld on ly avail o save from destruction the adjoining buildings. d At about eleven o'clock the whole mill appear.ts e to be gutted, and the fire seemed to have reached its climax. The alarm then began to be felt that tn lower part of the tower being destroyed or weak ened by the fire, the whole of the building might fall. it The wings were in great danger, but as soon as became unmistakably apparent that the mill Pro perly so called was hopelessly involved in the flames, the police directed their efforts with great ii energy' and in the midst of a scorching heat, to preven t t . h fire extending to those portions of the building wh ic t . were stored with cake and oil. Th ere was no l ack of ready workers, and the w i ngs were early empti ed of their contents. The efforts of the police to Pre serve the wings were perfectly successful. By half-past one th e fi re wa s completely nu de : control, and shortly afterwards the flames We re quenched. et The value of the property destroyed cannot in be ascertained with any degree of exactitude. is, however, estimated by some at from £20,000 t° £30,000. It is understood that the property is insured. ASSUMED LITERARY NAMES IN AMERICA. — 0 I i n t Optic is William T. Adams; Christopher Orowfield , J % - ; Harriet Beecher Stowe; and Major Jack Downing, Smith. LONDON FEVER HOSPITAL.—The annual 'fleet" ing of the friends and subscribers to the ab cY" hospital was held yesterday evening in the " Freeraes°ll6:, Tavern," Great Queen-street. The chair was taken b., the president, the Right Hon. the Earl of Devon. Frota * statement of accounts submitted to the meeting by 31/.; Owen, honorary secretary to the charity, it appeared °S. the receipts up to the 31st of December last, including it balance of £534.125. lid. from the previous year, am oun° to £8,953 7s. 6d., and the expenditure to - £7,51 3 4 s• S o d. There had been invested during the year the sum of X'59,:: and the balance at present in hand approaches £l,OOO. 1'; Buchanan read a lengthy and elaborate medica l reP° ; which stated that the number of patients admitted du e the year had been 3,355, being a larger number than " t : aggregate admission for sixty years. Of the Patie,,: taken in during the year, 1,961 were suffering from tyP''' fever, and of this number 9 per cent. had died. '1'1): deaths in 247 cases of scarlet fever admitted were seven per cont. of the patients under treatment. A large u tita l : ber of patients suffering from other kinds of fe ve, suit ea " 6 pox, and measles were also admitted. During the Y. S trict; and a single applicant for admission was turned wgl and the hospital receives patients from all the and in London, with the exception of Lewisham , roPlar' is Mile-end. In order to meet the increased wants of charity, the foundation of a building cap able of h°l ing 120 patients had been laid, and the new extension, cost somewhere about £5,000. The hosp ital is at pres.euts considering the pressure upon its working Powers', very efficient state. Upon the motion of Mr . Lowe, second:u o by Dr. Finch, the report was unanimous l y adopted. 1 u Right Hon the Earl of Devon was th en re-electe Lord d pre: sident of the charity ; and the name of the present s Monteagle was substituted for that of his grandfather, as one of the vice-presidents. The names of Lord Overstou and the Marquis of Westminster were also added to the list of vice-presidents, and the thanks of the committee were given to Mr. Charles Dickens, who was re-electedites vice-president, for an article published byhimin t'sst s. Year Round, setting forth the merits of th e char ity. trea- Dimsdale and Owen were unanimously re-appointed s urer and secretary, and other officers having Ear l of the proceedings closed with a vote of thanks t o the Devgia for presiding. 'been chosen,