The Sun. — London, England, 1865-02-08 00:00:00

HEli. MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Sole Manag,rer and uirector, Mr. W. Harrison. TIIIS EVENING th. 3 performance will commence with the new Opera, LAR A. Principal characters by Messrs. Swift, G. honey. Forbe?, Terrott, and Renwick; Moses Louisa 1111 C, Cc Well, Bnrrington, and Romer. Conductor, Signor A RDITI. After the Opera will be given the Burlesque, entitled THE LION AND THE UNICORN. Principal characters, Messrs. Rouse, Andon, cte. Misses E. Button, Cottrell, Furtado. To conclud ers e w.th the GRAND TRA.NSFORMATION SCENE. Doors open at Halt-past Six. Commence at Seven. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GAUDEN. (Opera Company, Limited.) CONTINUED SUCCESS OF CINDERELLA .AND TELE WONDERFUL L ONATO. TIIIS E ti VENING, (Feb. £O, a new Op,ra. the music by F. Clay, the words by T, Robtrtbon, eutiticd CON sTNNCE. Principal chara. tern by Adile. Diartorelle and v iss TL b hirlwall ; Messrs. H. Cord, A. took, C. Lyall. unit tienry Ha . Conductor, Mr. A. MELLON. Alter which, at a qua rter- p ast S, the Grand and highly DonatO successful l'ai.tomin , e , CINDEUEI.LA, In wi.ich accessories. will reappear, Ma,ornify.;ent Scenery and gorgeous Commen.e at Soren. THE A.TRE-11 OY AL, DRURY—LANE, Managers. Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, Shakespere's Play of HENRY THE EIGHTH, te miusting with the fall of Wolsey. Messrs. l'helps, Walter Lacey, H: Marston, E. Phelps, Barrett, Sin clair; Miss Atkinson, Mrs. Yandenoff, &c. Alter which, the Grand Christmas Pantomime, HOP O'3lY THUMB AND HIS ELEVEN BROTHERS; or, Harlequin and the Ogre of the Seven-League Boots : Messrs. G. isel more, Tom Matthews, G. Weston, Master Percy Roselle, &c. busses Lydia Thompson. R. Lcclercq, &c. ; Messrs. Boleno, C. Lauri, W. A. Barnes, T. Morris, Cormack, Saville ; Mdtne. Boleno, the Misses Gunnies, aad Signor Tescano. THEATRE -ROYAL, E-R OYA L, HAYMARKET. Lessee. Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, Feb. 8, DAVID GARRICK. Messrs. Chippendale, Sothern, Buckstone, Rogers, Clark, Coe, We - thersby, ; Mesdames Moore, Snowdon, ntzwilliam, After which, LORD DUNDREARY MARRIED AND DONE FOR Messrs. Sothern, Buckstone, Braid, Gordon, Clark, White, Coe, Weathersby, ; Mesdames zinowdo3, 11111, Sic With PRINCESS SPRINGTIME. Mr. Compton, Miss L. Keeley. Aud THE WOLF AND THE LAMB. To commence at 7. • NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, .A.DELPHL moIe troprliotor and Alanagyr, Ja, - . aubter. THIS EVENING, STEPHEN DIGGES. Messrs. J. L. Tool , Billing ton; Eburne ; Mrs. A. Mellon, Mrs. Killington, and M si II Simms. To conclude with THE FLOITE:iS OF THE FOREST. Messrs. J. L. Too:e, P. Bedroid,Biliii•gton, Stuart, S, ephen son, C. J. Smi 11, Eburne ; Mrs. A. 3.lelion, Mrs. 13111ingtol, Miss K. Kelley, and miss A. Seaman. Commence ac 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. I. Lchter. THIS EVENING, SIMPSON AND CI. Messrs. S. Emery, C. Horsman, Collett; Mesdames C. Horsman, lien rade, E. Eoyce, and Elswortny. After which, at half-past 8, a New Drama, entitled TIIE ROADSIDE INN. It.bert Mazaiie, Mr. Fechter. Messrs. Wid,licomb, C. Ilorsmam Fitzpatrick, Garden, Moreland, Raymond, eollett; Mesdames Eisaorthy and B. Percy. To conclude with BEAIIFACED IMPOSTORS. Mr. Widdisomb. Doors open at half-past Sig. The Box-office open daily from Elev.n till Five. ReYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. MIS EVENING, a new Extravaganzi, entitled THE MAGIC HORSE AND THE ICE MAIDEN 1 Alter which, THE STREETS OF' LONDON. Messrs. Vining, J. W. Ray, D. Fisher, D. Murray, J. Nelson, H. F'orrertcr. 11. Mellon ; Mrs. Henry Allusion, Miss Emxna Barnett, and Miss Rainy Gwynn'', ROYAL STRAND THEATRE Sole Lessee and Ilanageress. Mrs. Swannorongh. 11111 EVENING, at 7, LAWRENCE'S LOVE SUIT. Mr. farselle ; Mesdames Palmer, Carson, and Hoght.s. After which, the Grand Christmas Burlesque, THE " GRIN" BU,,HES ; or, the Mrs. Brown of the Missia-sip,i. Messrs. Stoyle, Thorne, James, Fenton, &c.; Mesdames Ada . Swanborough, Raynham, Simpson, Jotinstoue, &c. To c melude with MRS. GAEEN'S SNUG LITTLE BUSIIsESs. Mr. Belford. COALS. —The LLLTJESITALL COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis'. 264. per ton. I Double.. 21s. per ton. Top ' 235. „ De, p 22s. „ :Cell screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne t'ark-road, W., and 17, South %Marl. raddiugton, W., and Mkiden-lane, N. Best Coke Terms cash. JOHN COb TT, dole !..I;ent. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " supplied, as soon as published every Evening by W. AI.EXAN DE ft (lAte BltOOICS), Newspaper Agent, 2:, ULU cavenuisn-.trvet, Oxford-street. T HE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN,' Luntakulikg tic I,,test 51'O I.N't C.O De bad Every hveninq of Cr. %t. (31.1 , ,Nt I.:, News AGENT, No. 1. Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. TnE LAST -- EDITION of " THE SUN' supplici as ,00n as l'utAislitti containing all the LA I'EST AP:WS ant SPORTIAG iNTxt.t.i(;;o;Ce, by tt. W. liAltittt 4 ., Ne.%spapt:r Agent, 4, Btackiriars-road, London, S. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tills DAY.—Morning, 12h. .11m.—Afternoon, 12h. 59m To-Monnow.-Morning, lh. 27m.—Afternoon, lh. 50m. glyt r-4.-e.;olk-kik LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 8, 1865. -t The Parliamentry proceedings of yesterday, both in the Lords and in the Commons, were strictly in keeping with the weary, depressing influence of this grey, dull February weather. They were worthy, in every • way, of what Lord DERBY tersely defined as "an ancient Ministry, and a moribund Parliament." It is true the leaders upon each side of the House of Peers took part in the discussion, there, such as it was. Not so in the House of Commons. While the Earl of DERBY and Earl GRMWILLE, each as Leader respectively, in the Upper House, of the Government side and of the side of the Opposition, exchanged complimen tary hints of future hostility—in the Lower House, the Prime Minister and the right hon. gentleman the member for Buckinghamshire confronted each other, throughout the evening, in dogged silence. Could the latter, by any acoustic possibility, have contrived to catch an echo of the opening remark of Lord DERBY—when the noble Earl rose to address his compeers in that mysterious " other place," the precise name of which must never be mentioned to ears polite in the presence of Mr. SPEAKER—" Were it not that I might be thought guilty of some discourtesy to the noble lords who have moved and seconded the Address (the Earl of CHARLEMONT and Lord HOUGHTON) by passing it by without observa tion, &c."—Mr. DISRAELI might, in that case, have felt himself constrained to say something, however vaguely generalised, upon the subject of the loyal Address of the House of Commons in answer to the Speech from the Throne, if only out of consideration for the feelings of the mover and seconder, there—to wit, Sir HEDWORTII WILLIA3ISON and the Hon. ILk.N BURY TRACY. As it was, the right hon. gentleman, having no such over-refined scruples of courtesy inciting him to speak when he had really little or nothing whatever to say—after, in the most exem plary manner, enduring the tedium of a good deal of small talk from the back benches—walked off, as one might say, with a shrug of the shoulders, leav ing Lord PALMERSTON sitting mumchance upon the front Treasury bench opposite, without a plea for opening his twenty-five in—ini3ust'e s until the House rose at the hour, was to nine o'clock, early as quite worn out and dispirited ! The whole thing we repeat was, just simply, from first to last, perfecily in keeping. But for th e I r i s h Mem bers taking exceptio n , some oyfaithsem pretty stro ng ly, to the paragraph in th e Ireland, • the House might most referring to e of et have dropped asleep prematurely under the drowsing influence sheer dullness and stupidity. Gallantly, h ow _ ever, Mr. VINCENT SCULLY began the mutiny• One of the English Country gentlemen, on t h e Conservative side—Mr. RICHARD LONG, th e member for Chippenham, generously breaking n ew ground, later on in the evening, as a volunteer champion of Irish rights and an impassioned repre hender, in behalf of Ireland, of English, that is, of course, of Whig misgovernment ! The hon. mem b3r, here referred to, during the course of his very earnest remarks, it should be said, raised the laugh, once, against the occupants of the Treasury Bench, by defining " a itt office" as 4 , an ugly dog well mu77led"—raising another laugh, ax, little while afterwards (against himself, however, this time) by pleading, in the mere tones of his voice, almost, one might say, pathetically in behalf of the Irish people as one rendered— by Whig misgovern ment—" a debased and mutilated race." A lapsus lingute of which the Secretary for Ireland—in the midst of his usual harum-scarum speech, reckless in the use of unauthenticated statistics, and exagge rated not unfrequently to the length of absolute misrepresentation—humorously and very effectively availed himself. The hit of the evening, however' was Mr. DANDY SEY3IOUR'S reference to Reform in a speech formally arraigning the Ministry before the bar of public opinion, upon the charge of having robbed the country during these last five or six years of all chance of obtaining any reform at all—for the sake of securing to themselves place, power, and its perquisites to the cry of " PALMERSTON for ever ! No politics ' and no principles !" Another telling incident— lightening the dullness of the evening for one brief interval by a manifestation of genuine earnestness and patriotic devotion, was the impassioned apos trophe in behalf of justice being at last done to Ireland—an apostrophe addressed for the most part to Ministers generally, though at one moment individually addressed to the Chancellor of the Exchequer as (probably) the future head of the Liberal Party in the House of Commons—by Mr. MAGUIRE, the member for Dungarvan. Otherwise than in these few isolated particulars, the proceed ings last night in the Commons were as dull as dull could be, and were utterly characterless. Every thing just now in regard to the Session, the Parlia ment, the Ministry, the no-policy, the no-principles (alluded to by the member. for Poole), being really pretty much all of a piece. Prussia and her affairs are certain to engross a certain amount of attention during this Session ; and notwithstanding the immense excitement which prevailed last year on the subject, it is not ex hausted, nor have we heard the last of the extraor dinary complication of affairs in that direction. Nothing is more significant than the tone which has been adopted in reference to the occupation *of the Duchies, and he that runs may read the meaning of their portent. The reply of Austria to the last note of Prussia is enough to show that great things are intended to be done in this respect. It is as serted that some members of the Progress party have agreed to accept as a " definitive solution " of the discusion, that the number of troops composing the Prussian army should be fixed at 200,000 men. This will be a singular manner of freeing the Duchies, which was supposed to be the legiti mate object of the Dano-German War, or at all events was said to be so. It will be a satire upon the whole German policy in respect to the Duchies, and the best retort that can be made to those who have said that the intentions of Prussia and her ally were honest and honourable. They are neither the one nor the other, nor have they ever been so from the outset. Day by day, we might almost remark, brings fresh proof of the zeal with which the Cabinet of Berlin is striving to effect its objects and the ingenuity with which it frames its plans. The Government Bill that was lately brought forward in the Chamber of Deputies fixes the annual military contingent at 14* in every 1,000 of the population ; the Minister of Marine has asked for authority to " contract a loan of £3,000,000 for le construction of a fleet.". This is another of the mighty efforts so strenuously made for the increase of the power of Prussia ; but zeal without discretion is a very useless thing, and so hese arch plotters and planners of German renown will find one day, to their cost, all their tactics will lot avail to render Prussia a naval Power, and they may reckon without their host upon the support and countenance of England. The things that have been are not likely again to come to pass, for the people of this country will be slow to tolerate another Government that so unworthily conforms to wishes of a foreign Power instead of consulting the interests of England and the honour of the nation. All this affair of a Prussian navy is per fectly ridiculous, and can only conduce at last to the shame and obloquy of those who urge it forward with such haste and vehemence. The armies of Prussia have not been so distinguished of late years, that the people should thus try to wing their flight higher, and do wonders in another direction. It is, however, very useless to seek to im part wisdom or to give warnings when those to whom they are offered will not take them in good part, or consider them in a right spirit. For the benefit of others implicated in the affair, it may be as well to view the question in its true light ; and since our Ministers have so invariably pledged them selves virtually, if not officially, to support Prussia in all things, it will behove the Opposition to look out, and if they cannot prevent, at least protest, against the practice of aiding and abetting that un scrupulous Power in her encroaching efforts and extraordinary assumptions. If Prussia is determined to be foolish to the top of her bent, she must do so ; and if smaller States emulate the fate of the frog who sought to swell to the dimensions of the bull, there can be no occasion for England to share the ridicule of the affair by seeming to assist at the ceremony. Still less can there be any occasion for us to be mixed up in the scandalous efforts that are ever and anon made by the Germanic Powers to increase their sway and augment their territories by trampling upon the rights and liberties of others. It would be a difficult task to endeavour to define the limits which Prussia has fixed upon her domi nions, and we know from experience that neither right nor reason will check her in her course, nor impose a restraint upon her proceedings. Wilmington has not yet fallen. The eager ex pectation of the North has not yet been realised ; and it is highly probable that it will not be gra tified without a severe and prolonged struggle, if indeed the object be gained at all. The importance of Wilmington is so great that the Confederates will make every effort to retain it, and the fact of the communication between Richmond and the assaulted city being intact affords them the op portunity of supplying reinforcements. It will require a siege before Wilmington is finally sub dued, and we shall very likely hear of one or two pitched battles in South Carolina, where the interest of the war is at this moment centred. The capture of Wilmington would interrupt the communication between Charleston and Richmond, the two great strongholds of the Confederacy ; and of course, while the Smith is anxious to keep pos session, the North is proportionately eager for suc cess. DAVIS and LEE will not allow them that satisfaction if they can help it, and there is good t ground for resista nce , n otwithstanding the absurd telexa n m io s iim aid on t d o . be found from LEE saying that if Caswell an d Frazer were not held he cou ld not hold e gunboats were Up to the 18th the Federal were unable t o a d vance, as th e mon ito r s Come up th e stream, and the Confederate artillery 01l Fort Andrews was sufficient to destroy the lighter draft gunboats. Northern accounts of two days later admit that on a reconnaissance be ing made, the enemy was found in force two miles off, that A tairMi4 ensued, 7after which the Fede- THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 8, 1865, 421. ...A rals withdrew, so that at present the prospect is satisfactory for Wilmington. We are sorry to see so much discord and disa=ffection among some members of the Con federacy. Northern gold and Northern influ ence have not been wanting, and as the Southern President has been one of the most formidable, be cause one of the most able, temperate, and consistent of their opponents, it is against him that their machinations are principally directed. The Federals are sharp enough to see what vigour, purpose, and character DAVIS has infused into the councils of the Confederacy ; how his statesmanship, his high principle, his firm and straightforward policy, have raised the rebellion from a mere outbreak of partisans into the uprising of a united people. In the words of Mr. GLADSTONE two years since, JEFFERSON DAVIS " has made the South a nation ;" and while the tyrannical and arbitrary proceedings of the North have excited the indignation of all free coun tries, DAVIS, in the most trying times, has never ceased to respect the Constitution of the States, the freedom of the press, and the liberty of the subject. Whatever attempts may be made to weaken his authority, or however ingeniously newspaper " correspondents" may be made to represent the people as discontented with his rule, such " corre spondence" in American journals is to be always regarded with some distrust, and the great body of the people of the Southern States have been throughout fully sensible of their good fortune in possessing in so serious a crisis so skilful and con scientious a pilot. DAvis's last act shows how far he is superior to petty feeling, to the envy or self importance so often attaching to men in authority. He has signed the Congressional resolutions ap pointing a General-in-Chief, and has sent a letter to the Congress informing them that LEE was only relieved from the whole com mand at his own personal request, when he assumed the direction of the Army of Virginia, and that as soon as he finds it practicable to unite the duties, he will deem it conducive to the public in terest to place him in that position. Such mag nanimity and ready acknowledgment of LEE'S merits proves that DAVIS has the good of his coun try more at heart than any personal advantage. BLAin has returned to Washington without result, and his return has affected the price of gold and cotton in New York. DAVIS has informed him that no treaty can possibly be made without the preliminary of recognising the Southern indepen dence, and, secondly, he has told him that the South would agree to an armistice during the dis cussion. This is the right spirit in which to meet the insulting offers of the North, and all the Con federate organs breathe a warlike tone. The Con gress has ordered the issue of 20 million of notes for the prosecution of the war, so that all indicates their undiminished resolution. We have no fear for the fortunes of the Confederacy, and the Ides of March may possibly entirely change the present aspect of affairs. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (RELITER'S TELEGRAM.) SPAIN. MADRID, FEB. 4. Senor Zarcodel Valle has been appointed Spanish Charge d'Affaires at the Court of King Victor Emmanuel. The Epoca of to-day says :—According to private letters received from Habana by the last steamer, there were, at the time of the steamer's departure, 6,500 invalids from Santo Domingo in the military hospitals of Cuba, 3,000 in those of Puerto Rico, and another 3,000 in hospital in the island of Santo Domingo itself." THE BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Feb. 7. The Royal Mail Company's steamship Magdalena, .C. 4 lpt. Woolward, with the above mails, has arrived. She brings 75 passengers, specie value £47,500, and a large cargo. The Magdalena brings 4 packages of diamonds and a cargo consisting of 1,144 bags of coffee, 1,083 bales cotton, 553 bales tobacco, 4 boxes of cigars, 5 boxes ostrich feathers, 20 packages ipe cacuanha, and 139 packages of sundries. The Magdalena experienced head winds the whole voyage to Lisbon (except two days near the Line), westerly winds from Lisbon to Cape Finisterre, northerly and north-westerly across the bay, and up the Channel south-easterly rain and thick weather. She anchored in the Solent at 11.45 p.m. on the 6th inst. Admiral Elliott and all his squadron, except the Satellite, were at Monte Video and River Plate. The Egmont, Sharpshooter, the Dutch frigate Due de Nassau, and the French surveying vessel Lamothe Picquet, were at Rio de Janeiro. The Curlew sailed from Rio for Monte Video on Jan 7. The Prussian sailing frigate Niobe was at the Cape Verde Islands. The Government of Rio de Janeiro are sending every available soldier and vessel of war to the River Plate to prosecute the war there. BUENOS AYRES, Dec. 29. The Standard publishes the following summary of news : " Without attaching much importance to the great apprehension entertained at present of a gene ral River Plate war, we regret sincerely to acquaint our foreign readers that the state of things in this Republic is anything but desirable. Since the sail ing of the French packet the troops of Flores, aided by the Brazilian gunboats, have besieged and bom barded a little town in the Uruguay called Pay sandu, and been effectually repulsed by the heroic garrison of the • place. The bombardment of this once thriving town has caused the most profound sensation throughout the country, and, if followed up by any success on the part of the Monte videan Government troops, cannot fail to result in very serious consequences. Flores and his allies, the Brazilians, have been compelled to raise the siege owing to the near approach of the Government army ; and we are now waiting to hear the issue of a battle which is anticipated by all, but very pro bably never will take place. " Meanwhile, the Paraguayan Government, view ing with distrust the alliance of Brazil with such a man as Flores, has virtually declared war against Brazil, seized the Brazilian mail steamer, and actu ally despatched a force of 2,000 men to wrest from Brazil the rich province of Matto Grosso. The Argentine Republic, we are happy to say, still re mains neutral, and the people repose the most un bounded confidence in the cool firmness of President Mitre to steer clear of all the dangers whichthreaten. A very strong party is raising its head in the pro vinces, which is vehement in its complaint against the National Goverment for its neglect to protect the frontier, as Indian invasions are of late so daring and repeated that the lives and properties of the estancieros are in the greatest peril. The frontier line of this Republic is of such immense extent that it is almost impossible to defend it, save at an enor mous expense, which the country at present is utterly unprepared to meet. "In compliance with the terms of the law, the Government bank has burnt another nine millions of the paper currency, and the demand for our cir culating medium is at present so great that specie has suffered a sensible decline since the departure of the Samtouge. Still, business is very dull, money is scarce, and a general want of confidence most painfully obvious. Few of the saladeristas have as yet commenced working, but they will begin early in the new year with every prospect of doing a good business, as estancieros are not only willing but anxious to sell their cattle at whatever price they can get. "We regret to say that the news respecting the gold mines of San Juan is very discouraging, but the silver mines are getting excellent returns. " The state of the interior provinces admits of much improvement ; the people are restless simply because destitute of capital or employment. They have positively no occupation, and embrace politics and electioneering in the hope of securing a liveli hood. We find great fault with the Government of this country for its excessive apathy in agricultural and industrial matters, and hope to see President Mitre, in the coming year, adopt a new line of policy in this respect. "The market opened very weak this morning, and specie displayed a downward tendency ; subse quently, no doubt owing to the general conviction that Flores has suffered a defeat, specie grew firm ; paper money, however, is scarce, and collections most unsaleable. Loans for 30 days in the currency are freely made at 2 per cent per month, and na tional bonds hypothecated as collateral security. " A great number of bills of exchange were offered on the market to-day at as high a rate as 494, but the rate of first-class bills cannot be quoted higher than 49k. " The wool market is very depressed, although some. large sales were made in the North Plaza as high as 97." CATTLE SHOW IN BRAZIL.—The Correio Pau lis tano, a paper published in Sao Paulo, gives an amus ingiaccount of what it states to have been a ceremony of a perfectly novel charactar, not only in that province itself, but also in the empire of Brazil. The first cattle show on record there, as it appears, took place in Sao Paulo on the 23d of December last. The idea, according to the Correio, originated with the superintendent of the Sao Paulo Rail way, Mr. J.J. J Aubertin, and was quickly responded to by the whole staff, who made up a list of subscriptions which allowed of the distribution of several handsome premiums. The meeting gave rise to the liveliest curiosity among the inhabitants of the city and the district, who attended in a considerable number, in spite of a most unpropitious after noon. Happily, however, the large locomotive shed of the railway was placed at the disposal of the meeting by Mr. P. W. Sharpe, the resident contractor, where cattle and all were well sheltered, and whore an admirable distribution of certain railway material quickly converted the interior into a compact cattle-market. The animals exhibited consisted of oxen, sheep, and pigs, and the following premiums are re ported as having been presented to the several successful competitors by her Excellency the Marchioness of Santos, who, in spite of the bad weather, attended expressly for the occasion, viz. :—Ten guineas for the best ox, to Senor J. A. de Borba Cujo ; six guineas for the second best ox, to Senor Candido J. Silvo ; six guineas for the best sheep, to Senor Cujo ; three guineas for the second best, to Senor Chox ; two guineas for the best pig, to Senor Cujo ; and one guinea and a half for the second to Mr. P. W. Sharpe. Mr. Sharpe also exhibited a most beautiful fat cow, to which the judges were reluctantly compelled to deny a prize, from the wording of the regulations. The judges were four in number—three Brazilians and one Englishman,—viz., Senors Commendador Fidelis Prates, Dr. Martinho Prado, J. R. dos Santos Camargo, and Mr. H. T. Jarvis, a gentleman on the contractor's staff. A formal report of the proceedings, drawn by Dr. Fidencio Prates, the hon. secretary, and signed by the judges, was presented in duplicate to the Camera Municipal of the city, and to his Excellency the President of the Province (Con selheiro Joao Crispiniano Soares, who acknowledged it in a handsome despatch. The novelty of the whole affair appears to have been warmly appreciated by the Paulistas, who, we understand, contemplate an annual repetition of our English ceremony. Indeed, from all accounts, there is no excuse whatever for the province not producing and sending to market animals of a first-class character. At present, however, there is a great lack not ;only of good producers, but likewise of good butchers. The sheep are for the most part miserable, and mutton properly so called can scarcely be said to make its appearance at table at all. In meat and in vegetables too the city is very poorly pro vided; yet, with a little care and industry, vegetable and animal would flourish as elsewhere. This want of variety in vegetables, combined with the abundance of pork and bacon always on hand, leads a great portion of the people to confine themselves to this last sort of food, mixed only with the dry, black bean of the country ; hence the preva lence of scrofula. Two simple conditions only:are required to remove this stigma in a land where the bounties of na ture have been so much talked about as to have become a stale subject--viz., exertion on the part of the producer. and a generous support on the part of the consumer ; this latter most especially. As the province will now very shortly have a fine railway to develope its resources, it is to be hoped its people will lose no time in bestirringthem selves in reference to the noble branch of industry which relates to the breed of cattle—an element of progress not less important in an agricultural than in a sanitary point of view, and if rightly pursued sure to be highly remunerative. THE COUNTESS DANNER.—We hear that the Countess Danner, the morganatic wife of the late King of Denmark, is about to marry Count Silfwerstolpe, descen dant of a very ancient Swedish family, and that the mar , riage will take place at Nice. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THIS D.Y. The SPEAKER took the chair at half-past 12 o'clock. RECRUITING IN THE ARMY. Mr. O'REILLY gave notice that on the 28th instant he would draw attention to the present mode of recruiting in the army, and move for a Royal commission in reference to the same. THE COUNCIL OF EDUCATION. Mr. WALTER gave notice that he would move an ad dition to Sir J. Pakington's motion for an inquiry into the working of the Council of Education, to the effect ,that such inquiry should be extended to the inspection of schools. THE DRAINAGE AND THE SHANNON. Colonel FRENCH gave notice of a motion for inquiring into this subject. COURTS OF ADMIRALTY IN IRELAND. Mr. MAGUIRE asked the Chief-Secretary for Ireland when it was the intention of the Government to introduce the promised measure for reforming the Court of Admiralty in Ireland, and assimilating the law in Ireland to that which exists in Engand ? Sir R. PEEL said that the subject was under considera tion, but he was not in a position to make any statement in reference to it at present. REMOVAL OF PAUPER'S TO IRELAND. Mr. MAGUIRE asked the President of the Poor Law Board, whether he would lay upon the table all 'correspon dence between the Poor Law Commissioners in Ireland and the Poor Law Board is London, relative to the the alleged illegal removal to Ireland of Mary Moriarty and her four children, and Julia Hannan and child, by the guardians of the Greenwich union ; as well as all papers thereto relating ? Mr. VILLIERS said he had no objection to produce the papers referred to. ARTERIAL DRAINAGE IN IRELAND. In reply to Lord NAAS, Sir R. PEEL said that, although the subject had been under the consideration of Government, he was not in a position to give the noble lord information on this subject. ALLEGED PROSPERITY OF IRELAND. On the bringing up of the report of the address in reply to the Royal Speech, Mr. SCULLY moved the following :—" To omit the paragraph relating to Ireland, and to insert, ' That the house regret that the general condition of Ireland cannot be regarded as prosperous or satisfactory, and that multi tudes of the inhabitants continue to emigrate to foreign countries through the want of remunerative employment at home,' " instead thereof. The hon. member said that he did not intend to go over the same ground he had travelled yesterday, but he did repeat at some length the substance of his observations. Ho could not see the prosperity that was spoken of in the Royal Address in regard to Ireland, but, on the contrary, that there was a downward tendency in its material condition. Ho could speak positively with regard to agriculture, and he thought the alleged manufacturing prosperity was very doubtful, at all events he was too obtuse to per ceive any such improvement. There was an an nual drain on the population of Ireland of 100,000 men, and it must be remembered that that number of in habitants represented a commercial value of £30,000,000. He attributed the paragraph in the Royal Speech relating to Ireland to Sir Robert Peel ; and he repeated the com plaint he had previously made as to Ireland not being go verned by Irishmen, contending that so long as that was the case the country would never be in a prosperous state. Ho suggested as a practical measure the purchase of the railways in Ireland by the Government. He argued that flagrant injustice was inflicted on Ireland, and alluded in support of that statement to the practice of sending Irish paupers who had spent half their lives in this country back to their birth-place. Irish emigrants left their native country with a feeling of hostility towards England, and were ready to take arms against it, a state of sentiment which it was impolitic and even dangerous to cherish. In the course of his observations, he asserted amid much laughter, that it appeared most of his sup porters of last night had vanished, which rendered it doubtful whether he should press his motion to a division Mr. O'REILLY seconded the motion. Sir R. PEEL said he wished merely to supplement the observations he had made last night, as ho understood the hon. member did not propose to press his motion to a division. The general feeling of the house was that the paragraph alluded to should have been introduced into the Royal Speech. (Hear, hear.) He firmly believed that since last year there had been an improvement in Ireland, and that it was never in a more prosperous condition with respect to the potato crop. The hon. member for Cork himself admitted that the grazing in Ireland was also in a prosperous state, and they were all aware of the import ance of the grazing interest to that county. In proof of the improved state of Ireland, he would refer to Irish railways, on which £24,000,000 had been expended chiefly by Irish capitalists, which he contended clearly proved the development of prosperity in Ireland. He quite agreed with the hon. member for Cork, in regard to the dangers of the Shannon and its tributaries, and measures would be devised to prevent a recurrence of such disasters. Within the last eight years no less than £16,000,000 had been expended in the erection of buildings in Dublin, and during the last four years in Belfast no less than £400,000 for the same object. (Hear, hear.) He had re ceived communications from Galway which showed that measures were adopted to meet the distress prevailing there, which it was to be hoped would be only temporary. (Hear, hear.) Major GAVIN alluded to the increase in the growth of flax in Limerick as a hopeful sign of the coming prosperity of the country. Dr. BRADY supported the amendment. The house then divided, and the numbers were— For the amendment Against 67 Majority —ss INDIA. Sir J. ELPHINSTONE drew the attention of the house to the late disasters resulting from the cyclone on the river Hooghley, in India, and to the inconvenience of making up the finance statements for India late in the session. The reply to the address was then agreed to. THE STEAM VESSEL STANLEY. Mr. R. HODGSON moved for copy of evidence and re port relative to the loss of the Stanley steam vessel at the mouth of the Tyne, in pursuance of an inquiry directed by the Board of Trade.—Agreed to. MORTGAGE DEBENTURES. Lord NAAS obtained leave to bring in a bill to enable certain companies to issue mortgage debentures founded on securities upon or affecting land, and to make provision for the registration of such mortgage debenttires and securities. The bill was read a first time. The house then adjourned at ten minutes to two o'clock. MARKETS --This Day. ---o- MARK-LANE. The arrivals of English wheat fresh up to our market to-day were very moderate, and the quality of the produce was inferior. Good and fine dry samples, consequently, were in fair average request, and prices ruled firm ; but for damp qualities the trade was dull, at barely late rates. There was a moderate supply of foreign wheat on the stands. Good and prime old qualities moved off steadily, at full currencies ; but Russian produce sold heavily, and where sales were pressed rather less money was accepted. Floating cargoes of grain were in slow request at late rates. The supply of good and fine malting barley on sale was somewhat restricted, yet the trade was slow at late rates. Inferior barley sold heavily at previous quotations. Malt was in limited request at late prices. The supply of oats on sale was moderate. Generally Speaking the trade was dull, and inferior produce changed hands at rather lower prices. Beans and peas were in slow request, yet prices ruled stationary. The flour trade was steady at late quotations. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. English and Scotch 480 1,740 790 50 330 I r i s h — 840 Foreign - COMPARATIVE QUANTITIES AND PRICES OF GRAIN for the Week ending Feb. 4, 1865 :—Wheat, qrs., 83,620 ; average 38s 4d—barley, 70,493 ; 29s 2d—oats, 9,356 ; 19s 6d Corresponding week in 1864 :—Wheat, 74,757 ; 40s Bd— barley, 74,935 ; 32s ld—oats, 14,173 ; 18s 11d. ITALY. KING VICTOR EMMANUEL'S JOURNEY TO FLORENCE. PARIS, Feb. 8. The Constitutionnel of to-day publishes the fol lowing letter from a person in the suite of the King of Italy, upon his Majesty's journey from Turin to Florence. FLORENCE, Feb. 4. The King left Turin yesterday morning at nine o'clock, accompanied by the President of the Coun cil, the Minister of his household, and all his aide de-camps and orderly officers on service. His Majesty intended to travel incognito, and the special train which conveyed him was only to stop where absolutely necessary. The news of the King's departure, however, spread with the rapidity of lightning over the whole route, and at Asti, Alexandria, Voghera, Piacenza, Parma, Reggio, Modena, and Bologna all the authorities, and an immense number of people, were at the railway station to salute his Majesty and afford him those marks of devotion and enthusiasm which, under present circumstances, the people consider a strict duty. At Bologna, particularly, the popular welcome was extraordinarily cordial, and his Majesty ap peared visibly affected by it. The large railway station of this city was crowded by an enthusiastic assemblage. The King, who had made arrangements for a journey incognito, was agreeably surprised by this welcome, and expressed to the authorities of Bologna his regret that the arrangements already made would not allow him to alight at their city, which how ever he proposed to visit subsequently. The railway from Bologna to Florence passes through a barren and mountainous country, and the locomotive toils slowly up the steep incline of the Apennines. The train stopped at Biela, as the damage done by the inundations necessitates a journey of three hours by coach. Advantage was taken of this stoppage to drive. The report of the King's passage had been carried through the gorges of the Apennines, and the Paretta railway station was soon invaded by an enthusiastic crowd, who, with a flag at their head, welwomed the elect of the nation, the King of Italy. _ I pass over the reception at Pistoja, Prato, and all the towns of central Tuscany. The train entered Florence a little after 10 o'clock. Here the letter enters into the details of the recep tion affcrded to his Majesty at Florence. The cor diality and devotion manifested by the people were pever more sincere and spontaneous even upon the King's two previous visits, the first in 1859, a few days after the annexation of Tuscany to his States, and the second at the time of the Exhibition. The writer proceeds :-- The King will stay at Florence during the three months necessary for the installation of his Govern ment in the new capital. His Majesty has always testified great attachment for Florence, arising from the recollection of his childhood, which was passed here. llis Majesty will absent himself for a week from Florence, in order to be present, as usual, at the Carnival in Milan. The President of the Council, who accompanied the King, will return to Turin to-morrow. Arrange ments have been made that one member of the Cabinet shall always remain with the King, who will sign all the Acts of the Government. Each Minister will come to Florence about once a week. FRANCE, BOURSE, Feb. 7.--The market has been rather dull to-day. Threes, for the Account, opened at 67f. 20c., and are now doing at the same price. Mobilier have undergone no change, the quotation now being 963 f. 75c. the same as the closing quota tion of yesterday. The Railway Market continues firm. The Market closed as follows :- 4i per Cents 96 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 66 95 Do. end month 67 20 Credit Mobilier Do. end month 965 Bank Shares 3560 Credit Foncier 1280 Roman 73 50 Italian Loan 65 35 Do. end month 65 30 Ditto Threes — New Mexican -11 Russian ~ — Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred ,WAYS. ItAIL' Cash. Acct. 923 75 ... 925 Orleans Northern lOl2 50 ... 1015 Lyons and Mediterranean.: 960 ... 952 50 Southern 578 75 ... 578 75 Western 540 ... 541 25 Eastern Sardinian 306 25 ... 307 50 Austrian ___ ••• 450 Lombard 552 50 ... 555 North of Spain 345 ... 343 75 Saragossa 405 ... 402 50 Ditto to Barcelona l7O ... _ _ CANADA. Tonono, Jan. 28. The Chief Justice of the Toronto Court, and his associate judges, have decided that Burleigh must be delivered up to the United States. ERRATA TO OUR REVIEW YESTERDAY OF SIR E. B. LYTTON'S " POEMS."—After) [the second extract, the sentence should have begun " Neither the scene itself," instead of "Neither the poem itself :" while, towards the top of the second column of the review, in lieu of " at another moment passing," it should have been " at another moment pausing." In the first line of that second column, moreover, " while" should have been " one while"—and, yet a little lower down in the same column, the word " qualities" should have appeared in the singular number as " quality." RE-APPEARANCE OF BLONDIN.—Last night M. Blondin, the " Hero' of Niagara," re-appeared be fore the public at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, and met with an enthusiastic reception. The immense building was filled to excess in every part by a multitudinous as semblage, congregated from all parts of the metropolis, to witness the high-rope performances of this celebrity, who, previous to his approaching departure for the Continent, has accepted a brief engagement at this favourite place of amusement. M.Blondin performed some of his most noted feats with all his customary skill and intrepidity, and though his balancing pole broke in two at a critical period of his perilous passage along the rope, ho preserved his usual self-possession, and not only completed his journey in perfect safety, but afterwards accomplished with ease and apparent unconcern the dangerous achievement of walking from one end of the cord to the other withhis eyes bandaged and his head in a sack. On the conclusion of his perform ances he rode around the circus in a Roman chariot and was everywhere received with shouts of " Bravo !" waving of hats and handkerchiefs, and every demonstration of wild enthusiasm. In fact, if he had saved the country he could scarcely have been greeted with more fervid applause. NOTICES OF MOTION IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. —The session will commence with as many as 39 notices of motion on the order-book of the House of Commons. Mr Alderman Salomons has a notice on opening the pre sent toll-bridges free, and there are several on private bills. The fees to counsel are to be reduced ; out of 596 local bills, there are 215 bills relating to railways in England, 66 in Wales, 54 in Scotland, and 37 in Ireland. ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN.—The general monthly meeting of this institution was held on Monday ; Mr. William Pole, MA., F.R.S., treasurer and vice-president in the chair. The Countess of Tanker vale, Mr. Francis Woodhouse Braine, Mr. James Brogden, Mr. William Henry Harrison, Mr. Thomas Lucas, Mr. John Lambert Mears, Mr. William Miller, Mr. James Ro manes, Mr. Edward Young Western, and Mr. Henry West ropp were elected members of the Royal Institution. The chairman announced a legacy of £lOO to the institution from the late Mr. George Dodd, and a donation of five guineas from Mrs. Barlow ; and the following additions to " The Donation Fund for the Promotion of Experimental Researches :"—The Rev. John Barlow (second donation), £lO ; Henry Vaughan, £2l; Mr. Edmund Packe, £5 ss. The presents received since the last meeting were laid on the table, and the thanks of the members returned for the same. _ _ —-- - - Court of Aldermen A Court of Aldermen was held yesterday in the Alder men's chamber at Guildhall ; the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor presiding. The preliminary business having been disposed of, Mr. Alderman and Sheriff BESLEY informed the court that the sheriffs had taken upon themselves to alter the day of execution from Monday to Wednesday. . . Mr. Alderman SIDNEY thought the sheriff ought to give the reasons for the alteration. Alderman and Sheriff BESLEY said the first suggestion had come from the court itself. The first reason was that the execution on a Monday must of necessity b 3 attended by a great desecration of the Sabbath, and inconvenience as regarded Newgate-market. Before making the alteration the Rev. M. Gibbs, the minister of Christ-church, and the ministers of St. Sepulchre's and St. Martin's had been con sulted and they had concurred with it. Mr. Alderman COFELAND thought it would be better if the execution tack place privately. The public would be very much benefited by it. - Upon one occasion, when an execution took place on Easter Monday, on the Tuesday following he had more than 20 cases of picking pockets at the very foot of the gallows taken before him. • Mr. Alderman LAWRENCE thought there would be a most decided and unanimous feeling against private executions. In all cases where a large crowd was collected, let it be the opening of a new church or a meeting, there was sure to be a number of that class present who were engaged in re moving property from other people's pockets to their own. Mr. Alderman PHILLIPS gave notice of the following mo tion in reference to the subject: "That it should be referred to a committee of privileges to consider whether it would be judicious to make application to the Secretary of State with a view to ascertaining whether the time had not arrived when executions, which so degraded the City, should take place privately, and not publicly. Mr. Alderman SmNEY gave notice of a similar motion, viz., "Whether it was the opinion of the Court the Secre t:try of State should be memorialised to have the executions removed from the precincts of the City." THE BROKER OF THE CITY OF LONDON. A further report was brought up from the General Pur poses Committee, submitting for adoption new rules, orders, and regulations for the government of brokers of the city of London, and asking for authority to prepare the necessary bonds in conformity with such rules and regulations. Mr. Alderman GIBBONS, in the absence of Mr. Alderman Waterlow, moved the adoption of the report, and that it should be referred back to the committee to take the neces sary steps for putting the proposed rules in force. Mr. Alderman Pnruirs thought some of the rules require considerable modification, and suggested one or two altera tions. In fact he objected to the whole of them, and was of opinion that such a supervision as the brokers were sub jected to was against all the principles of free trade, and he moved as an amendment that the report should go back for reconsideration. Mr. Alderman COPELAND seconded the amendment. Mr. Alderman BESLEY thought the omission of the clause which prevented a broker from buying or selling on his own account goods in which he dealt, and the substituting of one which only required him to act justly between party and party, completely abrogated the whole character of a broker. Mr. Alderman LUSK said those whom it was proposed to protect were the large merchants of the City, who did not want protection. If it were to protect those who had their mustard adulterated with flour, their coffee with chicory, and their bread with plaster of Paris, he could very well understand such a supervision. Alderman Sir E. CARDEN supported the amendment. He did not think it was a question of the protection of the public at all, but that it was entirely a money question. With regard to the class of brokers known as stockbrokers, he believed there were not a more honourable body than they were ; but there were certain individuals who were not thought worthy or respectable enough to bo admitted into the Stock Exchange, but who nevertheless, by means of advertisements which might be seen in any of the papers, succeeded in inducing persons to entrust them to transact their business. It was by such persons that many of the frauds were committed, and he thought if the court would prevent persons from acting as stockbrokers unless they were members of the Stock Exchange, which was free to all who were worthy, some real good would be done. The amendment, on being put, was lost, and Mr. Alder man Phillips then moved that a clause which provided that none of the certificates which it was required should be signed by six merchants should be signed by an alder man should be struck out. This was also negatived, and the original motion was agreed to, viz., the adoption of the report, which was re ferred back for execution. We observe in the 1865 edition of " Debrett's Peerage," that there are 24 Dukes, 34 Marquesses, 197 Earls, 57 Viscounts, and 215 Barons of the United Kingdom ; 117 of whom are Baronets, 430 have been mar ried, the remaining 97 still being in a state of single bles sedness; 80 have obtained academical honours at Oxford, whilst 50 have been receivers of the same from the sister University ; only 9 peers are in Holy Orders, two of whom are Bishops ( i s a th an d W ells, and Tuam, Killala, 1 and Aelionry) ; 743 of the younger so ns o f P eers h ave obtained honours of various distinctions, have had or still hold Government appointments, or, like 974 of the daughters of Peers, are married. There are only 14 Peeresses in their own right. Last year there died four Dukes (Athole, Newcastle, and the 2d and 3d Dukes o f — ou l let, ill t arci uess(Bristol),-8 E ar l s (Ab er d een, Morley, Cadogan, Stair, Carlsle, and Clare, r l Cleveland),- 1 this last title becoming extinct),-1 Viscount (Sid mouth), -4 Barons (Ashburton, Manners, Rodney, and Somerville), -1 Lord Bishop (Ely),—and 1 Peeress in her own right (Ruthven). The last mail brought to Bombay a Mr. Camp bell,• the Punjab Railway. This gentleman has had position on in England, princi pally who proceeds in a few days to . Lahore to take up a more than twenty years' experience Great Northern h will probably be turned to Northern Railways, and which 4§ kcfrinbay Gazette. in connexion with the Great Western and Great good account in the rtuijab.—T BOROUGH HOP. All good and flue hops move off steadily at full prices otherwise, the trade is quiet at late rates. WHITECHAPEL The supply of meat is moderate, and trade rules quiet as follows :—Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 6d ; mutton, 3s 6d. to 4s ad ; veal, 4s Od to 4s 8d;; and pork, as 4d to 4s 6d per 81b by the carcase. Loss OF A SHIP OFF SOUTHPORT.--A telegram received in Liverpool yesterday evening states that the barque Lexington, Captain Millard, bound from Nassau to Liverpool, with a cargo of blockade run cotton, went ashore on the Salthouse Bank on Monday night and became a total wreck. Fortunately the crew are reported to be saved. THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA.—From three to four millions of American gold alone arrive at and leave these ports monthly, besides large and most valuable car goes of merchandise, and yet any week, for month after month and year after year, since the revolution broke out, any piratical vessel might have entered the harbour of Aspinwall and carried off from the wharf an American steamer with her cargo on board without the least resist ance. The same might virtually be said of Panama.— Panama Star. At the Surrey Sessions yesterday Henry Charles Smethwick, alias Borromeo, one of the most audacious im posters of this age, was tried on several charges of fraud. The prisoner saved the time of Court by pleading guilty, but addressed a whining letter to the Bench, which, how ever, did not prevent the Chairman from passing up 5) him a sentence of Aye years' penal servitude. Icy , DIE& rdigig HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Feb. 7. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, at tended by the Duchess of Athole, and Major -Gen. the Hon. A. Hood. Princess Helena and Princess Louise also drc ' ve out. Mrs. Parkes (late Miss Amy Sedgwick) bad the i honour of reading before her Majesty, their 11° Y 3 1 Highnesses Princess Helena, Princess Louise , all ', Prince Leopold, yesterday evening, a selection o' poetry from Tennyson, Shakspere, and Sheridan Knowles. -.- Arrival of the Count and Countess D' l.l " Amongst the passengers by the Magdalena, w hich arrived at Southampton yesterday, were the Princess Imperial of Brazil and her husband, Count d'E u ' son of the Duke de Nemours. the Their royal highnesses were met on board Magdalena by the following members of the Or leans family, and other persons, most of whom ha d 3 rived at Southampton previous day, and for wl'" , accommodation a special steamer had been ch ar ; tered to meet the Magdalena in Southanlll6,; Water. Their Royal Highnesses the Duk e Nemours, the Prince and Princess de Join v d ' e the Count and Countess de Paris, the Duk e p i Chartres, Princess Marguerite d'Orleans, his E t c : lency Count Lavradio, Portuguese igiui p - i . Count Carvalho, the Marquis Beauvon, _ ;-.1.31 Grenfell, the Brazilian Consul-General, and Alr' do, Hill, vice-consul ; his Excellency Baron de Fe li c e do his Excellency M. d'Andrade, his ExcellencY 3 ' 3 1, Figuereido, Captain Reille, Captain Charleten, rd. T. L. Montresor, M. Aragos, and Mdlle. Be rnA the - Their royal highnesses embarked at Rio e ll 10th January (from the royal steam yacht), o ' 6° o panied by a large number of the Court official s ! a o . er by the Duke of Saxe (who married the Yo u 11 5 0 sister of the princess). After taking kW , 1 1 s Magdalena sailed for Bahia, arriving there P re ,; p.m. on the 13th. At 7 p.m. the next day til e .d to sident and officials of the port came on W I f o r welcome the imperial party, who left the o'4' the the shore in the state barge, under salutes froni re , forts and men-of-war. After some hours theirer. embarked with the same ceremonies, sailing forger, embarked nambuco, at which place they landed on the e ' for,; ing of the 16th, in a handsome barge sent of f the purpose. They w e n t to th e P res ident's P al a ,I.' and there held a reception, re-emba r king and la Targe ing under salutes from the forts and ships. ; 0 01 number of presents were sent to the princess both places. COO The suite of their Royal Highnesses the t o and Countess d'Eu consists of General . 5 Dumas, Baron and Baroness de Lage, Dr. 1-4 , lll ii va Ctimha Feijo, Senhor Joaquim. Miguel R. (secretary), and seven servants. Eealth of Cardinal Wiseman. 6 WEDNESDAY 11.1oftS1";a3 The Cardinal has passed a better night 00 expected, and he is all the better for it. • CARDINAL WlSEDlAN.—Yesterday morumb i stated, on inquiring, that the cardinal was ill 11/1 bis tremely weak condition. In the aftern o°° {o A eminence rallied, and was rather better. VP 4 1 11, late hour last night the cardinal continued ol lee- i B st but in feeble health. The inquiries during t ile i)e cil ten days at his house in York-place hay ° t oti numerous. All the foreign Ambassad ol Ministers have daily sent to learn the ten or ° bulletin. At ten o'clock last night they (10 1 l another consultation between the three Me gentlemen who have been in attendance. ‘ His Royal Highness the Prince of Wa les '1 present in the House of Lords yesterday afternoon. t he His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador 110 j ever Countess Bernstorfr entertained at dinner on gondol r d l ig ing, at Prussia House, his Excellency the Italian Excellency the Saxon Minister, his Excellency the —‘ th° atic Minister, the Hanoverian Charge d'Affaires a n y ise° Baroness Biome, Mons. and Madame de lilatt e ' Ysenburg, Marquis do Tamisier, Baron Freiderichst Holstein, and Mons. G. Overbeck. port ly His Excellency the Count Lavradio, the guese Minister, returned to town last evening frail ing their Royal Highnesses the Count and Countess at Southampton, on their arrival from the Brazi ls'Aiio The Archbishop of Canterbury and th e Aia toir Longley have arrived at Lambeth Palace froal Ad a Eton' Croydon, E ei The Earl of March, eldest son of 'the pik lie' Richmond, has just entered the army as 03411 tt tenant in the Grenadier Guards. wi per, The Countess Cowper and Ladies u ° ,, Ter tfol l '` expected in town next week from Panshanger! shire. 1 The Hon. George Waldegrave Leslie, 31.% °I ,' I t 4 the Countess of R o th es , h ave arr i ve d in town fr° countess's seat in Scotland. The Earl of Rosslyn and Lady Harriet St'lortlr have arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Boughto n ' ampton. iv CO ' The General Irrigation and Water SupP..r, /i cier pany has been announced by the Credit -revirei and Mobilier of England, and the capita l req. clot is £BOO,OOO, half of which is to comprise theees issue in shares of £2O each. The company P r° d ti' to supply Aix, a town in the south of Fraile e, g its water, and to irrigate the lands lying al oll -route, and power to carry out the object ill 00 is derived from a concession obtained froil'iroo French Government, with a cash subvention the Department of £160,000. The whole o' ai d works are to be completed in three yeart v itol during that time interest is to be paid on the "010. subscribed at the rate of 8 per cent. per The directors in their prospectus allude to tP of the lowing terms as to the remunerative character ie for association :—The financial arrangements Ottegorl carrying out this conces s i on place it in a c 3 0,0 almost unique, as will appea r from the fe01)1)11 calculations :---The whole rental of wa ter- tol ir will, in accordance with the concession, beg li til i ' teed during the term of th e conce ssion by the n tile cipality of Aix, and is further a cha r g eti, lands so irrigated; the minimum rent al - o ,,otiV mated at £30,000 per ann um (the 11 ; 6 .3 : 3 revenue that can be realised is 06 , 11 ; 0 3 ); f r° :, about £52,000 per annum, or nearly don v""e oan": this must be deducted 12,400, allowed to le0 4 1 , 11 ; cipality for maintenance and collecti on ' r i' bo £27,600 net estimated revenue per ann i°ll ;ilJ c i income, on the completion of the works once capitalized or purchased for 50 years in 3 ;A pili t A i the Credit FQncier of France ; the Inanj e Ct o f Aix being bound by the concession t° e ve rag e o f capitalization ; this will be done at an 5 stiin, d ll about 6 per cent., producing thereby ante £460,000. To this sum has to be add ed 6`% o ' subvention of £160,000, making a total 0.1:‘0,,f0r7.0 --from this sum must be deducted the cost of at he interest, administration, &c., say £34,0007a of concession £90,000, making a total a ; 0 , leaving £190,000 net profit, of which °l3 l . ther belong to the concessionnaires, and the 0 4 1 ' ' e pt. thirds will belong to the shareholders, N ` ve r e thirds will amount to £127,00 0 or 63 c i e d te ' bonus on the amount of the capital intelleot. the called up, and this after receiving 8 Per o ,,, o ref _ o r rest during the three years. This is not' as eiero whole of the profit that may be att aiue6 £l,OOO additional income received front er the ;is any time after they are opened, even an to I to talisation of the income at th e (1 ; i ; 1,,a ott completion, as above-mentioned, 1040, 0 e fresh 'capitalisation of about £ 16,1 iS supposing another £5,000 income per mina t hi ceived in two years after the open in g r e ric h moderate calculation), a fresh bonus 00, of t o e' for distribution amounting to 183,5 , 0 the °l- f il3 cl two-thirds or /55,000 would belong eentoef holders, giving a further bonus of 27 P e et,r O a of so on in proportion. There remain:47ole en al` source of profit to mention, viz., t ha .,.; v e the 50 years the whole amount will . 11 nelli de(l 1 # off by the action of the sinking f unu d two' ,; of try e estimated charge of 6 per cent., a n ro perti o v the whole receipts again become the h e rea l company, who can re-sell them to: ~ i Ol3. 49 years, or retain the rental at ;i bpi CORDIE R( The Money Ma activity, and the: quietude now that rnercial enterprise, and profitable eha the c ommand of further dimity utioi is ch arged for the in quiry at the Bar has been moderate There were no yesterday. In th e F oreign downward teruder st ances. The first ordii holdera of the any Company cod ru ended int ere cent. per annum f coillinenced active last' the account Period of about seN of £63,665 3s. 9d. Proportion XllO,Ol At ?aria, this In telegrant, the 3 pc Itather firm. froul the The English St conunen ( the afternoon a d the pub lic have b e etent. Consols 1 account 89i I. r. Annuities are 88 Preto. ; India 5 Pel Cents., 98 4 1 .1. 0 la the Foreign IN C ens a nd prices 1ex1862, are S pa i con, 271 28 ; -I tali Passive,! E ' i; do. ; Egyptian 1i 4nntevidean, 44 sTii gli ne tus inegB i n t h e ve ry inactive !ttaaces tended d o lilliaad ha ve each r7lttli Eastern, e a "at /siorthern, 'the Forei gn anc 4 tive at about preN tank and Aliscen a, r e decli ned to 34- on of A ustralia tall ; Gen eral Irrig Y shares are qt &) 1 i stri c t R ailway, 'l4l kortga,ge Ban] kilt improvern 14aa % cl Company, a CoF Per R ITISH Ce 4AT FuDo N 4temak,onsols 11 - n nt, , Feb. 9 .4e1:,,) per .4.euuced b O / Per e e nt 41 N . °. Per Cent. Jan. N ti. es , 3A Cent. J an. ): 1 ler 30 " Yr r 8 ' e XPi ▪ xt ; ) l (lt ed s, iexp i rc Alter T ,„ Telegra uo. 111 ; £1;00 t a bo, 1. 11 t_a, £lOO 14 1 4. Ikx u o land Stock 1) 4 0 4 8 to e 'l: ./TE RNME:s - 7 Aec,o I° l Per C 1) 0 " Per lit ..... ke ee Cent. j u j; N . 4 per llnt .... D o ' beertifieeni., . : a d ..... . ';,Pe a r aper 4 . 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