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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 3b. 21m.—Afternoon, 3h. 40m To-lifoltßow.-Merning, 3h. 58m.—Afternoon, 4h. 18m ~. Zlt ttt o7:J -, UM LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 20, 1865. ----4► -- A memorial has been presentedtoMr. CARDWELL which is well worthy of consideration, and is indeed most welcome to contemplate after the violent de nunciatory compilations which have been received in that quarter. 'Ws always the case that the really discerning part of the public keep back from any overt act, and make no demonstration at the out set of an agitation like that which has been specially got up in this Jamaica affair. For a time the roughs have it all their own way, and a most ex traordinary way it is, but the reaction always follows, and even now we may say it has begun in this matter. When once the tide has turned it will soon overwhelm those who have set themselves up as judges in defiance of right reason and veracity. The example of the justices of the peace, clergy men, and others resident in and near Huddersfield cannot be too much commended to notice, nor too widely followed in every direction. The time has surely now arrived when a stop should be put to the encroachments made by a prejudiced class who are supported by some who should know better. In this Memorial we meet with calm but forcible expressions of opinion, and it is thus rendered, of course, the more emphatic and convincing. We cannot hope, unfortunately, that this or any similar communication will have much effect upon the authorities at the Colonial Office and the Ministry in general, but it is essential that the real feelings of the nation in general should be expressed, and that the agitators should be driven from their tem porary vantage-ground. It is truly stated in the Memorial referred to, that it is desirable for the interests of all parties concerned, and especially the ,‘ authorities who lie under so serious a eharge,,, that a strict investigation be made into all the circumstances connected with the revolt, but it is also added that the Memorialists regret the fearful and sanguinary revolt, and sympathise with the The bereaved families of the Volunteers. Anti-Slavery agitators have never recorded a single expression of this kind , and, indeed, they seem to be influenced by bitter and angry feelings towards all who joined in the struggle, and had the misfortune to be white. Great efforts used to be made by philanthropists to per suade people that black and white men should share the same privileges ; but the latter-day saints have improved upon this doctrine, and we are now to learn a new lesson, namely, that what ever crimes the blacks commit must be condoned, and that to visit their sins with the usual penalties of the law is murder. Such a course of proceed ing ca nnot but shock and scandalise all reflective aw l impartial persons ; but, in point of fact, this is the sum and substance of the tirades of Exeter Hall, and the denunciations of the tirades of virtuosi, who are moving heaven and earth to compass their own ends, and the destruction of all who offend against their prejudices and prevent the accomplishment of their places. The sixth:paragraph in this memo rial is most earnest in its statement. It declares that until the investigation is rr ade the undersigned deprecate as " unjust and premature" any condem nation of Governor EYRE and the other local autho rities. Had this sentiment been the informing influence on Government how different • things would have turned out, and how far more creditably would they have met Parliament. As it is, they are covered with reproach, and have to answer for betraying the trust confided to them of guarding liffE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBFR 20, lE€. of foot passengers has been very generally felt. The subways, though of course a little more costly, would be the most durable, and in many respects the best, and therefore they should certainly be adopted at the large and dangerous meetings of highways, such as the crossing from the Bank to the Mansion- house. The bridges may serve the purpose very well at less important crossings, and we are heartily glad that the Corporation have provided so sensible and efficient a remedy for what is really a great and increasing danger, to which every inhabitant of London is more or less exposed. The City will have the credit of being the first to inaugurate the reform, but we hope it will not be long before the West-end authorities follow their example. The new bill was gene rally approved of at the meeting of the Common Council yesterday, and it was determined, as an earnest of the sincerity of the Corporation in their improving intentions, to increase the police force by 50 men, in order to carry out the regu lations in the traffic. It was said that the Police Commissioner was of opinion that nothing short of a general widening of the City streets would mend matters, but such a change would be worse than the disease. It would, in fact, be simply impossible to carry it out, entailing, as it would, such immense commercial inconvenience and loss, in addition to the actual expense. All new streets and highways may, indeed, be constructed on a larger and more business-like scale, but the idea of pulling down and widening Cheapside or the Poultry, for instance, is one not very likely to find favour among City men. Just now such a project seems especially unnecessary, when the Thames Embankment, the new streets, and the underground railways, are all preparing to re lieve the pressure on the City thoroughfares. The methods recommended by the Corporation for ameliorating the present evils are so simple and sensible that it is only wonderful they have not been tried before. If the provisions of this new bill are fully carried out we may reasonably hope to see a considerable alteration in the chaos and confusion of our great arteries of commercial life, as well as a diminution in the number of those casualties which now occur with startling and amentable frequency. THE LATE KING OF THE BELGIANS BRUSSELS, Dec. 19. The Independence Beige says :—" Queen Victoria has sent Miss Andrews, one of her maids of honour, to Brussels, to obtain from the Queen of the Belgians in person a detailed account of the last moments of Leopold I. Miss Andrews left for London on Tuesday night, after having had an audience with the Queen." A rumour is current in the city that the Ministry has given in its resignation, and that the King has declined to accept it. TEL BRAZILS. ing of the Indian telegraph lines report arrears of work since 1862, and recommend the employment of an increased staff. _ _ . Mr. Lewis, the Advocate General, died suddenly in the High Court of Bombay, on the 14th inst. It is the intention of the Indian Government to publish monthly returns of trade, navigation, and finance, commencing from the month of May next. A native coasting boat has been run down by the steamer Bombay Castle, outside the harbour. Fifteen natives were drowned. The public health is good, and the crops present a promising appearance. Money is in demand. Imports steady. Cotton advancing. LA TEST INTELLIGENCE. which continually happen. So frequent and so serious are these disasters that they have come to occupy a formidable place in our annual bills of mortality, which one of our principal magistrates has thought worthy of notice from the bench, and a grand jury considered it their duty to remark upon. The bill which has just been prepared by the Corporation deals with this branch of the subject as well as with the difficulties of the road. To obviate the latter, they recommend more especially the removal of the heavy traffic from business hours. It cannot certainly be necessary for any one to deliver or receive coals or beer just 1 within the business hours of the day, while a coal i waggon or a dray loaded with heavy barrels may defy the efforts of a hundred lighter vehicles to get to their journey's end at something beyond a snail's pace. The new bill provides that no loads are to be driven through the streets with more than four horses between nine in the morning and six in the .evening, no timber or other articles exceeding a certain size to be driven at all within those hours. Locomotives are not to be allowed in the streets be tween the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. Each of these offences is to be punishable by a fine of £5 I instead of the old 40s. penalty, and the same fine is to be inflicted upon any one who shall drive any vehicle through the streets without being in such a position that he can see into the streets on both sides of him instead of merely straight in front, as too many of our drivers are satisfied with doin g . No doubt many of our st ree t acc i dents arise from e this cause, for unless a driver be properly placed on a box or seat of some kind by which he can look round him it , is scarcely possible for him to avoid acci dents, especially in turning c row d e d corners. Anothernts very important and sensible clause pro vides that no person of less than 14 yeare of age shall be left in charge of any vehicle whatever, the pen alty in this case t o be inflicted on the person SO i ntrus ti n g the charge. No one under 20 is to be allowed to drive a vehicle with more than one horse, and no person under 16 is to be allowed to drive at all. There will very likely be some difficulty in exactly asceraining the age of boys left in charge or youths dr t iving, but the fact of the prohibition being in existence will tend very greatly to discourage a most improper and dangerous practice. Other clauses relate to placing obstructions on footways or flower-pots on window-ledges without due pro tection, as well as the licensing of shoe-blacks and commissionaires in the City streets. The bill empowers the City Commissioners of Sewers, with the consent of the Common Council, to construct bridges and subways at crossings or intersections of streets for the benefit of foot pas sengers wherever they may think that such accom modation is required. The fatal accidents at the City crossings have been very frequent lately, and the necessity for some such provision for the safety bank currency. come in. RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 24. The Emperor unexpectedly arrived here on the 9th, it was generally supposed that he could not be here before the 10th, and consequently there was nothing ready. His Majesty and Count d'Eu dis embarked at the Naval Arsenal, and thence went on foot with the Empress and the Imperial Princess to the Imperial Chapel, amid the acclamations of the people who flocked to see their monarch. The Duke of Saxe being still unwell did not accompany his Im perial father-in-law, neither did the Duchess, being in an interesting condition. The city was illumi nated for three nights, and the Emperor, Empress, and Count and Countess d'Eu took, on the last night, a walk through the principal streets. On the 15th, Mr. Thornton had a public audience of the Emperor to present his credentials as Minis ter Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary of H. B. M. at the Court of S. Christopher. The fol lowing is the speech he delivered on the occasion : " Sire,—l have the honour to place in the hands of your Imperial Majesty the letter by which her Majesty, my august sovereign, has been pleased to accredit me as her Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at your Majesty's Court. " It will be my most grateful duty to use every effort to strengthen the cordial relations which happily exist between Brazil and England, and in seeking to attain this desired end, I hope to become worthy of your Imperial Majesty's good will. " Counting upon your Imperial Majesty's co operation, I cannot doubt that my efforts will be crowned with success." His Majesty replied as follows : " I highly appreciate this proof of friendship on the part of my dear sister the Queen of Great Britain. I hope, Mr. Thornton, that you will be the faithful interpreter of these sentiments, and that your mission will contribute to strengthen the bonds which happily unite the two countries." The officers of H.M.S. Narcissus flagship have given an amateur performance at the Opera-house for the benefit of the sick and wounded Brazilian soldiers and sailors. The house was full, and the performance was much applauded, the Royal Family were present, and the whole affair went off very successfully. Intelligence has been received from the seat of war to the 7th inst. The vanguard of the Brazilian army has crossed the river Corrientes. The army detained at Mercedes by the heavy rains could not overtake the Paraguayans, who retreated with such precipitation that they burnt a great number of their luggage waggons, upwards of 300 were de stroyed, and lost an enormous number of cattle. Corrientes (the capital) was evacuated on the 24th ult., and the Governor Lagrana re-entered , the city on the 25th. The atrocities committed by the Para guayans at Goya, Empedrado, and Bella Villa cannot be described. At the latter place the daugh ters of an English resident suffered the greatest outrage, the youngest was not 13 years old. The father vainly offered everything to save his daughters from dishonour. The city of Coirientes suffered but little comparatively speaking, the pub lic offices alone being sacked, but many families were taken away as hostages, among whom is mentioned the Spanish Consul. The Government of Paraguay has at length been moved by the publication of these atrocities in the River Plate journals, the Foreign Minister—Berges—having sent a circular to the representatives of foreign Governments, in which, although declaring that the army has been calumniated, he states that as it is impossible to avoid some acts on the part of the soldiers, however well disciplined, the Paraguayan Government will indemnify foreigners for any damage they may suffer during the war after its conclusion. In the same circular the Paraguayan Government, which did not sign the treaty of 10th July, 1853, convokes that same treaty to deny Brazil the right of blockading Paraguay, a right which has been recognised by Eng land herself in a note of 15th May, 1865. The Brazilian squadron has not only allowed foreign s t hi e p T h a d ofee Brazilian e l w a r a a r t pass, no fh sqtu b ae alsoudtron blockade.has merchant vessels, with the simple d ec l ara ti on th a t they were loading before h and is at Tre z B ocas Caceres, a o n n a e up the the c Parana, onientine t c h on e tn r i a g s e s: t, pursuing ,lepatria e hours Paraguayans, a f te r them, o a n r i t v h e e d 4 a ti t l inst. The squadron had combined with Caceres to enter the Parana, and thus cut off the retreat of the Paraguayans, but found the passage obstructed by sunken vessels full of stones. It is expected that Urquiza will not be able to raise an army. THE ABYSSINIAN CAPTIVES. —Letters from Egypt state that Mr. Rassani started from Massowa on the 15th October with 40 camel loads of presents. He was to wait at Metamma for a safe conduct. The Bing was gone on an expedition to Shea, so he might have to wait for a month or two, or more. Mr. Palgrave was taking short trips from Cairo, and waiting for the result of Mr. Rassam's mission. It was reported that the captives had been removed from Magdala to Debra Tabor, but it was not believed. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. 'Arrival of the City of Baltimore via Crookhaven.) NEW YORK, DEC. 9 (Morning). The New York Herald states that Congress will authorise the issue of another million of national The presidential term of Juarez has been ex tended until an election is practicable. The New York Daily News announces that Gen. Logan has refused the Mexican mission. The New York Herald states that President Johnson's message has materially modified the views of the Conservative Republicans, and believes that the resolution concerning the admission of Southern members will not pass the Senate without material modification. The Tribune urges mutual confidence and good accord between the President and Congress. The Cabinet has decided that Secretary Callory shall be tried before the civil tribunal within 30 days. The resignation of Generals Dix and Butler has been accepted. Another list of British subscribers to the Confe derate loan has been published, indicating those who paid calls and received interest, and those who did not. The Fenian President has issued an address re fusing to recognise the action of the Senate assem bled at New York. It is said that the Senate represented the views of the Fenian masses who oppose the lavish expen diture at the government quarters in Union-square. The New York Herald strongly denounces Feuianism, and recommends the leaders to be handed over to the police. The Chili= Envoy gave a banquet at Delmonico's to the Mexican Republican Consul and other repre sentatives of the South American Republics. Speeches were made denouncing European inter ference on the American continent. A public meeting at the Institute has been called for next week to express the people's sentiments upon the European intervention in Mexico, Chili, and Peru. According to the New York Daily News, General Logan has refused to accept th 3 Mexican mission unless the United States Government will give material aid to Mexico. The President had refused to give such assurance, Mr. Seward adding that the Mexican policy of the Government would for the present remain unchanged. News from Orleans to the Btl state that the cot ton receipts at Shreveport are fading off. At Jeffer son, Texas, the head of the Red River navigation, , there are 12,000 bales on hand and 20,000 more to The Asia has arrived at Halifax. COMMERCIAL. Money abundant. Gold 1441. Exchange on London, 1591 ; on Paris, 3-55. Stocks dull : New York Centrals, 97 ; Erie, 92} ; Illinois, 133; Five- Twenties, 1021. Cotton heavy • Middling Upland, 48 49. Flour heavy, wheat dull, and corn declining. Provisions steady. Coffee very firm, sugar quiet, and molasses steady. Petroleum quiet : crude, 41; refined, 67. MEXICO. NEW YORK, DEC. 9 The Mexican Minister has received advices from Juarez, stating that he would leave El Paso on the 13th for Chihuahua. Juarez had issued a decree declaring that the French invasion having rendered a Presidential election impossible, his constitutional 1 Presidency is extended till an election can take place. The Federal officers at Fort Blins, Texas, gave a ball on the 11th ult., in honour of Juarez. Matamoros papers of the 19th ult. announce the complete dispersion of the besiegers of that town. Washington despatches state that Cortina's guerillas had lately bung three Imperialists captured by them. SPAIN. MADRID, DEC. 19 The Correspondencia of this evening formally contradicts the news that the Government was dis posed to guarantee 30,000 reals per kilometre to the railway companies on condition that they should facilitate a loan of 3,000 million reals. FRANCE. PARIS, DEC. 20, Notice has been posted up at the Faculties of Law, Medicine, and Letters, in the University of Paris, that no student will be admitted to the course unless provided with the document showing that he has been inscribed as a student in either of these three Faculties. Every student will have to show this document. _ _ THE MEDITERRANEAN. Heavy penalties are incurred by those who should have enabled persons other than students to enter the Lecture Halls. Those students who, by speeches or otherwise, may seek to disturb order will be immediately brought before the Academic Council, and will be liable to be excluded from one or several courses, or excluded perpetually or temporarily, from the Paris University altogether. BOURSE, Dec. 19.—With the exception of Portu guese Railway Shares, which have again risen 7f. 50c., Stocks and Shares show depreciated quota tions. Threes are done, for the Account, at 65f. 35c., a decline of 71c. Italian Fives have receded 10c.—to 65f. 80c. Credit Mobilier Shares are offered at a loss of 10f., the quotation being 896 f. 25c. Spanish Mobiliers have fallen 6f. 25c. Northern Railway Shares have declined 7f. 50c. ; Lyons, 2f. 50c. ; and Austrian and Lombard, If. 25c. each. English Consols are also weaker, the telegram announcing a fall of *. Three o'clock. The closing quotations are as follows : per Cents 97 70 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 6B 20 Do. end month 6B 35 Credit Mobilier Do. end month Bank Shares 8800 Credit Foncier 1335 Italian. Loan 65 50 Do. end month 65 90 BAIL' Roman Ottoman Fives 43 40 Mexican Loan 49 25 Do. Bonds 333 75 Russian — 76 50 Austrian Spanish Threes Rome Debt Deferred 'AYE. Cash. Am Orleans — ... 845 Northern — ... 1147 50 Lyons and Mediterranean — ... 857 Southern ... ... 573 75 Western — ... 550 Eastern — ... 526 25 Sardinian — ... 217 50 Austrian — ... 433 75 Lombard — ... 427 50 North of Spain — ... 177 50 Saragossa — ... 211 25 Ditto to Barcelona — Roman - ... 170 INDIA. BOMBAY, Nov. 28 By the peace recently concluded with Bhootan subsidy of 25,000 rupees is to be paid annually to the Bhooteas, and will be increased to 50,000 rupees should they remain faithful to the treaty. A conspiracy has been detected at Cabul, in con sequence of which the governor has been impri soned. The Wahabies have evacuated Sttor (?), in the Persian Gulf, in consideration of a certain payment made by the Imaum of Muscat. The extension of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway to Burhampore was opened on the 20th instant. The committee appointed to inquire into the work The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw steamship Niphon, Capt. G. N. Hector, - which was sent out to Alexandria last month as an extra cargo steamer, arrived at Southampton yesterday at noon, bringing ship letter mails from the Mediterranean, two passengers, 166 chests of oranges, 50 boxes of dates, 44 cases of gum, five casks of wine, eight boxes of incense, two boxes of opium, and twelve packages of sundries. The Niphon left Alexandria on the 3d inst., Malta the Bth, and Gibraltar the 12th. From Alexandria to Malta she had moderate and light winds, with fine weather ; across the Bay of Biscay a fresh gale, prevailing winds north-easterly and easterly, with heavy sea and thick weather ; and in the Channel moderate easterly winds and thick weather. The harbour of Alexandria was in a very crowded state, a large number of merchant steamers waiting for freigh.,. The Niphon was in quarantine at Malta, and had no communication with the shore. Her Majesty's ships Victoria, Royal Oak, Cale donian, Enterprise, Surprise, Pelican, Hydra, and Caradoc were at Malta ; and the Racoon, Procris, and Redpole at Gibraltar. The screw frigate Are thusa, Capt. M'Donald, seven days from Plymouth, arrived at Gibraltar on the 6th inst., and left for the eastward at 8 a.m. on the 12th. A Turkish ironclad frigate, either the Abd-el-Aziz or the Mahmoud, passed Gibraltar on the morning of the 12th, on her voyage from Plymouth to Con stantinople. One of the above-named vessels from Plymouth on the evening of the 7th and the other on the following morning. The following British merchant steamers had ar rived out at Gibraltar :—December sth, the Onega, Capt. W. Marshall, 9 days from Newport, with railway iron for Alexandria ; the Christina, Capt. J. Byrne, 11 days from Liverpool and 7 from Holy head, for Malta, &c. ; and the Genova, Capt. J. Lees, 15 days from Glasgow and 8 from Holyhead, for Genoa. 6th, the Brenda, Capt. J. Boyland, 11 days from London and 6i from Plymouth, for Malta. 7th, the Apollo, Capt. R. Chew, 8i days from Hull, for Alexandria. 10th, the Pera, Capt. T. Jamieson, 5 days 18 hours from Southampton, with mails, &c., for Malta and Alexandria ; and the Ann, Capt. R. Hammond, 8 days from Cardiff. The British schooner Dauntless, Captain D. Edwards, from Girgenti for Bristol, with a cargo of sulphur, arrived at Gibraltar on the Bth inst., with sails and rigging damaged, having experienced heavy westerly gales. She drove from her anchors into a dangerous position, and was compelled to slip 70 fathoms of chain, and take a steamer to tow her to a secure berth. A chain and anchor were after wards supplied to the schooner. Advices from Cadiz, received at Gibraltar, state that the Spanish screw-frigate Almanza was in spected on the sth inst., preparatory to proceeding to reinforce the squadron in the Pacific. She will soon be followed by the screw frigates Gerona, Navas de Tolosa, Tetuan, Concepcion, and the steamers San Quintin and San Francisco de Borja. The paddle-wheel steamer Isabel 11., 14 guns, Cap tain F. J. Moran, from the Ferrol, where she has been refitted, arrived at Cadiz on the 9th inst., and left on the following day for the westward. The screw-frigate Gerona, 50 guns, Captain Escalera, having on board their Royal Highness the Duke and Duchess de Montpensier, arrived at Cadiz on the 10th from England and the Ferrol. The French war steamer Catinat, 6 guns, Captain Charlemagne, from Rochefort, arrived at Cadiz on the 9th with damage. The Spanish Minister of the Interior had issued orders that all vessels arriving at the Canary Islands with clean bills of health should be admitted to free pratique. A public meeting of the inhabitants of Gibraltar was held at the Exchange on the 7th inst., for the purpose of taking into consideration a communica tion from her Majesty's Government on the subject of a grant of £l,OOO which had been prayed for by the inhabitants in aid of the fund for relieving the sufferings caused by the late visitation of epidemic cholera. The Secretary of State had given a favour able reply to the application, but directed that the grant should cover the expenditure of £7OB paid for medical attendance and medicine supplied to the poor. The liberal private subscriptions having prcived sufficient to enable the relief fund to meet the demands upon it, until the final disappearance of the epidemic, the meeting resolved that any further aid from Government was unnecessary and should be respectfully declined. The meeting con cluded its proceedings by warmly acknowledging the great services performed by the Relief Com mittee. A new Sanitary Order for Gibraltar, approved by the Queen in Council, at the Court at Windsor, on the 20th ult., had been officially published. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, in his charge to the grand jury on the morning of the 12th, characterised the new order as " a great boon which her Majesty had conferred upon Gibraltar." On or before the 14th the Commissioners were to be appointed, and on the 16th they were to hold their first meeting for the appointment of officers, and for other preparatory arrangements ; but it is not until the Ist of January, 1866, that the order will come fully into operation. The Gibraltar Chronicle of the 11th inst. says : " Captain Sayer having resigned his appointment as police magistrate of Gibraltar has been suc ceeded in that office by Mr. F. Solly Flood. Cap tain Say er has been greatly and deservedly esteemed for his amiability and kindness, and for his gentle manly bearing in the eonduct of his official duties. He proceeded to Malta in the Pera yesterday, and will eventually continue his journey to Egypt. The best wishes of this community will attend him for the re-establishment of his health. It will not be forgotten that his pen has shed a literary lustre upon his name, and also upon Gibraltar, so little distin guished forits authors. Captain Sayer's " History of Gibraltar" has won many good opinions from critics, and will long be regarded as the most com plete narrative of events of interest which have occurred in connection with this ancient fortress." Latest quotations of exchange at Gibraltar were as follows :—London, 90 days' date, 491 ; Paris, 90 days date, 5.23;; Marseilles, 90 days' date, 5.24 ; Madrid, eight days' sight, k dis.; Cadiz, eight days' sight, 2 7 7--, dis. ; Seville, eight days' sight, par; Ma laga, eight days' sight, par to I dis. Premium on sf. pieces, per cent. 50 The Fenian Trials. TUESDAY NIGHT. Mr. J. Symes, solicitor, has been appointed Go vernor of Richmond Prison, in the room of Mr. Marquess. The Board of Superintendence has postponed its inquiry about the escape of Stephens. At the Cork Commission Mr. Butt spoke to-day two hours in defence of the prisoners. The Soli citor-General replied. The jury retired about four o'clock. A verdict of guilty was returned against Dillon and Lynch, and they were sentenced to ten years' penal servi tude each. Dillon admitted that he was a Centre, and Lynch that the evidence against him was, in the main, true. Duggan and Donovan were then put forward, and pleaded not guilty. There are now four informers on the witness table in Cork ? Nagle, Warner, Hagarty, And Scholfield. their subordinates from unjust aspersions in the execution of their duty. This memorial is an honour to those who sent it, and is worthy of being taken as the true type of feeling and exponent of opinion among independent Englishmen. How far more consistent is the course taken by these gentlemen with our national character than the mode adopted by a certain class of politicians who arrogate to themselves the right of being the most popular representatives. It is with regret that we learn a committee has been formed by Mr. BRIGIIT, Mr. J. S. MILL, Mr. GOLDWIN SMITH, Mr. CAIRNES, and others, in order that the opposition to Governor EYRE may be kept up , and for the purpose of pro viding legal assistance to Mrs. GORDON, and others w ho have " unjustly suffered." If they carry out their intentions to the letter, we can only say that they will be stultifying emselves, and will forfeit t h e re putation they have earned. Moreover, they will be utterly unworthy of retaining their seats in Parliament, for perverted judgment and the spirit of intolerance require no representatives in an Assembly where they are disowned and disavowed. Nowadays it is not likely that any intelligent person will be astonished at the doings of Prussian Ministers and authorities ; but, at the same time, it is most unseemly that every possible opportunity should be taken by them to show how little they care for what is said of them in foreign countries, and in what contempt they hold public opinion, The case of Count EULENBERG has been often dis- cussed, and all right-minded persons have been unanimous in their verdict concerning its infamy. The decision of native Judges is very different, however, and we learn that the very inefficient sentence passed upon the Count in the first instance has been considered too severe by higher authorities. The term of nine months has been altered to five and a half. Can anything be more preposterous than this? It is playing at law and profaning justice. Here is a man charged with a deliberate and deadly assault upon incontrovertible proofs, and the only recognition which is taken of this outrage by his country is that he is visited with a condemnation more suited to an error in judgment and a breach of military discipline than to a crime, and one too of a most inexcusable kind. Ile had received no provocation, he had not been irritated before the encounter took place, and the morale cf the whole affair must then be held to be that Prus sian noble may, if they please, in a fit of frolic or in the vagaries of midnight revelling, commit serious wrongs and perpetrate deadly injuries on others, and yet receive no particular punishment or reap the due reward of their actions. Such a course of judicature must be the order of the day while Prus sian influence is so paramount in many quarters as it unfortunately is at present, and there fore •the independent and conscientious communi ties of the world must content themselves with their own conclusions drawn from passing events. The sense of justice seems to pervade the atmosphere of domestic life in Prussia as little as the sense of honour is appreciated in the direotion of its foreign affairs ; and the ono and the other are virtually at a discount there, and we seek in vain for even the shadows or counterparts. We are glad to find that the Corporation of the City of London are prepared to take active and vigorous measures for the relief of the City traffic, and that the bill which was yesterday discussed at the Court of Common Council contains ample provision for remedying, or at least mitigating, the present evils. These are undoubtedly very great, and all that has yet been done to amend them has produced but little effect. We are so accustomed to the immense and ceaseless traffic of the City thoroughfares that we have cause to regard their inconveniences as a matter of course, and however much annoyed few persons are surprised if they lose a train or miss an appointment in consequence of a temporary blockade ; yet there is probably no place in the world in which time is of more value than in the good old city of London, though with the characteristic grumbling patience of Englishmen we have for years submitted to fritter and waste it away in useless conflicts with refractory draymen, and frantic expostulations with the guardians of carts and trucks. Added to this really serious annoyance is a still more formidable evil resulting from the crowded state of our streets, which is the number of accidents, many of them fatal ones, The New Peers• ---~--- In the London Gazette of last evening the official announcement appears of the elevation of the Right Hon. Sir John Romilly and the Right Hon. Sir Francis Thornhill Baring, Bart., to the peerage —the former as Baron Romilly of Barry, in the county of Glamorgan, and the latter as Baron Northbrook of Stratton, in the county of South ampton. The Right Hon. Sir John Romilly is the second son of the late Sir Samuel Romilly. He was born in 1802, and married a daughter of the Rev. Dr. Otter, Bishop of Chichester ; she died in 1856. The noble lord was educated at Trinity College, Cam bridge, where he graduated M.A. in 1826. He was called to the bar at Grey's-inn, in 1827, of which learned society he is now a bencher. He obtained his silk gown very early in his professional career, and the great expectations then held out by his inti mate friends have been fully realised'. He was always considered in the legal profession a sound lawyer ; and, although deficient in brilliancy, was thought a man who would by his talents occupy a high position among the dignitaries of the bench. Previously to his appointment as Master of the Rolls he had filled the offices of Solicitor-General from April, 1848 (when, as a matter of course, he was knighted), became Attorney-General in July, 1850, and, in 1851, was made Master of the Rolls, in suc cession to the late Lord Langdale. Before attaining the high honours of his profession he was a member of the House of Commons from 1832 to 1835 for Bridport, and after a petition in 1846 he sat for the same borough. In 1847 he was returned in the Government interest for Devonport, which consti tuency he continued to represent up to 1852. He was made a Privy Councillor in 1851. The Right Hon. Sir Francis Thornhill Baring, Bart. (now Lord Northbrook), is the eldest son of the late Sir Thomas Baring, second baronet, of Stratton Park, Winchester. He was born on the 20th April, 1796, and was educated at Eton. He afterwards repaired to Christ Church, Oxford, at which university he obtained a double first-class in 1817, and graduated M.A. in 1821. Like many other of the prominent public men, he studied the law without adopting it as a means of livelihood, and was called to the bar at Lincoln's inn in 1823. From 1826 up to the last general elec tion Sir Francis represented Portsmouth in the House of Commons. Previously to the late general elec tion, much to the regret of his political friends in the borough, he declined to come forward again, ex pressing as an excuse a desire to retire from the one rous duties of a member of Parliament. .The new peer was an earnest supporter of the Whig party, and he was well rewarded for his faithful adherence to his party„ having been introduced into official life as one of the Lords of the Treasury in the Earl Grey's Administration in 1830, and in 1834 ap pointed one of the Joint Secretaries of the Treasury. From April, 1835 (on the resignation of Sir Robert Peel's first Ministry), up to 1839, he held the same post of one of the Joint Secretaries. In the latter year he was called to her Majesty's Privy Council. In 1839, and up to September, 1841, he filled the highly responsible office of Chancellor of the Exche quer. It is not disparaging to his talents to say that, like many able party friends in that office, he fell short of the mark. He was laborious and unremit ting in his duties, but he failed to make a name. The Whigs were always remarkable as deficient in filling up that important place in the Government. In 1849 he again accepted office, and once more had a seat in the Cabinet—this time having taken the post of First Lord of the Admiralty. He held that office in the Government from January, 1849, till February, 1852. Since then political combinations have been such that his services, never of a first class order, have not been required by his party. The great talent of the Peelite element cast many hard working men into the shade. Sir Francis was one of the many of his party who had to seek official retirement under the pressure of a superior political talent. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, Dec. 19.--There has been a con siderable amount of business doing in shipping yarns to-day at very extreme prices. In some cases the highest price has been obtained to-day at which yarns have been sold during the last six months. This branch of the market closed very strong, with a decided tendency to higher prices. There aro yet many considerable orders to be given out, which producers are unable to accept, in consequence of the deep engagements they have already entered into. For home-trade yarns we have had but a quiet market, there is not much business going on. For these yarns there is no change in prices. The market for cloth continues firm. The slight fall re ported in cotton at New York in the advices by the China steamship on Friday depressed ourmarketbut momentarily, and the quickly-returning buoyany of the Liverpool cotton market soon produced the re establishment of prices here. We have had, however, between that day and the present but a limited business. Buyers appear to be afraid of operating largely at present prices. Manufacturers, on the contrary, show no disposition to meet them at any lower rates. To-day our cloth market opened rather flatly, but we have considerable firmness at the close. The business has been small, but at the full rates of last week. The latest telegrams to hand from India are not very favourable. Their contents are of a nature to make merchants still less anxious than they were to go into large operations. The purchases for that market are, therefore, in some cases confined to small parcels. There have been inquiries imply ing large quantities required, but there is no reason to believe in any desire to place extensive orders. There appears to be an impression gaining ground that the supplies of cotton from the three great sources--America, India, and Egypt—will fall short of what was expected. Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report of this day's market : " The last American accounts produced but a transient depression in our market, and prices soon resumed their former position. Buyers, however, still act with great caution, and confine their operations to small quantities. The recent India telegrams are not of a nature to induce purchases, but our market closes firmly, at last week's quotations." NOTTINGHAM, 19th.—The attendance at our Ex change-hall to-day was moderate, and a steady busi ness was done in lace yarns, at late prices. The inquiry for hosiery yarns was tolerable, and full rates were obtained. Silks without any material change. There was a quiet feeling in the demand for brown nets, but extreme rates were realised. ROCHDALE, 18th.—The flannel market has been rather inanimate to-day. There was a small attend ance of buyers, and they purchased sparingly ; but prices are firm, and there is no overplus stock offering. Manufacturers are well employed, as they have been throughout the whole of the year. To-day's sales have included about equal portions of plain and fancy goods, but the demand for the latter is the most active generally. Till the present season of stock taking is over the markets will probably be quiet, but in all other respects the trade is satisfac tory. There is a moderate sale for the best qua lities of Yorkshire goods, but inferior kinds are not easy to dispose of, except at a reduction in price. Wools are nominally the same as last week, with a 'air amount of business doing. THE LATE CHIEF JUSTICE OF NEW BRUNSWICK. —The Hon. Robert Parker, Chief Justice of New Brunswick, died at St. John's, New Brunswick, on the 24th ult., in his 70th year. Mr. Parker wont to the colony at a very early age with his father, and after taking a degree at King's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia, was called to the bar in 1820. In 1828 he was appointed Solicitor-General, and acted also as Attorney-General of the province, during part of the administration of the late Sir Howard Douglas. He was appointed a Puisne Judge in 1834, and in Septem ber last, on the retirement of Sir James Carter, who had also been on the bench for 31 years, he accepted, though with considerable reluctance, the appointment of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The labour involved in the sittings of the Court in October brought on a return of illness, under which he gradually sank. He was followed to the grave by nearly 4,000 persons, including the Lieu tenant-Governor and members of the Government. The late Chief Justice was a man of untiring industry, very ex tensive reading, and of great legal acumen. Few men have ever had a higher reputation on the bench in British North America ; while, in his own province, all sects and all classes combine in admiring one who was, if ever man was, an upright Judge and i Christian gentleman. aN-1 Ar ,N * tinlet tiritibtr. HER MAJESTY• OSBORIs.TE, Dec. 19. Her Majesty, their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, Princeso Beatrice, and her Serene Highness Princess 1 10- henloe, arrived at Osborne yesterday at a little be fore two o'clock, having crossed over from Gosport in the royal yacht Alberta. HER MAJESTY'S NEW YEAR'S GIFTS.—Her Ma jesty's New Year's gifts to the poor in the parishes of New Windsor, Holy Trinity, and Clewer w ill be dis tributed, in the shape of beef and coals, on the Ist of January next, to several hundred families. The total value of these annual gifts is about £l5O, and they arc allotted to deserving recipients by the vicar and clergy of 'Windsor, the various cases being generally recommended b y the dis trict visitors. Coming at this season of the year, when meat and coals are dear, the distribution of the Queen's gifts on New Year's day will be looked forward to wit h some anxiety by hundreds of poor people in the Royal borough. Her Royal Highness the Princess of \Vales has been graciously pleased to evince her interest in the Itos pital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, Bromptol by a donation of £5O in aid of the funds of that usef ll charity. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, after his return home on Monday from attending the f u neral obsequies of the King of the Belgians , visited his mother, the Duchess of Cambridge, at Cambridge Cottage, Kew. The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle left their residence in Piccadilly yesterday for Clamber Park, Notts. The Earl Cowley was expected to leave London last evening on his return to Paris to resume his duties as ambassador. The return of his Excellency to the French capital was hastened by the death of the Hon. Wm. Grey, the charge d'affaires. The marriage of the Earl of Sandwich and the Lady Blanche Egerton, daughter of Harriet Countess of Ellesmere and Francis, first earl, is to take place at Bur wood, Surrey, on the 27th inst. The Earl of Dunmore, Viscount Canterbury, the Hon. Captain Elphinstone, and Major Trevor have arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square. Lady Constance Marsham was confined of a son yesterday at the Mote, the Earl of Romney's seat near Maidstone. Her ladyship and infant are progressing favourably. Lady Emily Peel gave birth to a daughter Ye S" terday afternoon at the Right Hon. Sir Robert rel,i's s residence in Whitehall-gardens. Her ladyship's fllu, • will be pleased to hear that her ladys hi p and infant °l3' were both, up to an advanced hour last night, going favourably. Leath of the Hon. W. G. Grey. Yesterday morning information was received 01 the unexpected death of the Hon. William George Grey, the British Charge d' A.ffaires at Paris, wil e / after an illness of only a few hours, died at th e British Embassy at Paris at 1 o'clock yesterday morning. The event was so sudden and so 1 10 " looked for that it has cast a deep gloom over the whole of the members of the family. During the conge of the Earl Cowley the Hon. Mr. G re y hat', been acting as Chargé d'Affaires. He wa s seize' with symptoms of cholera on Monday morning/ which increased in intensity, and short l y after 8 o'clock yesterday morning Admiral the lion. Si r Fredk. Grey, K.C.8., and General the Hon. CWIO Grey received a telegram from Paris announcing the sad news that their brother had expired at the hour stated. The lamented gentleman was th e youngest of the large family of the late Earl Grey (the eminent statesman), by his wife, the lion' Mary Elizabeth, daughter of William Brabal°°' first Lord Ponsonby. He was born Feb. 15, 1. 819 ; He entered the diplomatic se rvice in the autumn. 1844, being appointed attaché at Hanover, and i ll October in the same year was attached to the eta' bassy at Vienna, where he became a paid attaché in 1847, and afterwards first paid attaché in 184 9 ' He was transferred to Paris in Feb., 1852; and ill , Sept., 1853, was appointed Secretary of Legation at Stockholm, where he occasionally, in the absenc e of the Minister, acted as Charge d'Affaires. 1 13. December, 1858, he removed to Berlin, but was only there a few months, for in July of the succeed ing year he was appointed secretary to the British Embassy at Paris, in which post he has since eon: tinued. The deceased gentleman was highly esteemed by those with whom he had official intert: course, as well as by those socially acquainted h ad him. General the Hon. Cha rles Gre y , who 113,0 only on Monday returned from attending, at t % request of the Queen, the funeral of the late 1CJ 136 of the Belgians, left town last evening for FaxiB_.,l The late Hon. William George Grey was move; in 1858 to Madlle. Stedingk, only daughter tir Count Stedingk, of Sweden, one of the bedchoi women to her Royal Highness the Princess Wales. Royal Institute of British Architects• ! At the meeting of the fellows and associates : the Institute of British Architects o n Monday elelloo m g—Mr. Beresford-Hope in the chai r—a paper '2V read by Mr. Gambier, of Paris , recently electedsto honorary fellow, on the application of pain ting to architecture. In treating the subje ct he took 11/10, consideration the associated arts of painting, se:lo,lt ture, and architecture, and endeavo ured to poix'"At some principles of combination by w hich they 13/101 be advantageously brought to bear in the ereetn o r w orks of the most perfect beauty. H e took - t o granted that, at the periods when the fin e witS were in the highest state of perfection, co lour 0 , generally applied in sculpture and i n architee DV but he contended that as colour is almost incarlilori imparted by nature to living ob j ects, it is neeel of to employ it artificially to give t he a pp ear3ne w d life, and that without it sculptured figur es look cold and dead. A consider able portion ° t „if that paper was occupied with the consideration "" 00 t subject. He advocated the colourin g of s t 3 t o not only because it was the practice of tb e v iog sculptors of Greece, but as being essential tc' i t hat out the beauty of the figure, an d he dente eil# there is any sensuous feeling produced by it . abstract beauty of form, he obs erved, is onlY gooier ciable by very few, while colour adds to the a Di wi thout detracting from the admiration eattioc; well-disposed light and shade. He made 5 . ., tion, however, between colouring and paintl i nore' l strongly objected to any painting of a se ll ' P e a figure by which the lights and shadows prodn.ed tho the chisel are interfered with. In consider"pt' decoration of the interior of buildings wi tb P . o ris t° ings, Mr. Gambier denounced as most inaPPrt::t the representation of sky, or clouds, or clist,.h jects, which are altogether inconsiste nt d he c h a racter of a solid enclosed building ; an a S t forced the necessity of discipline .in the that the coloured decorations might be W .ll) . s ot oo d . to the objects of the structure they vOr e . . l ;tav ic c . to adorn. He strongly censured the P rio r 0' taste that leaves the stone walls in the interif scrag' building bare, and the barbarous practice 0re00,4 ing off the original whitewash in mod o i c iel o tions; for such covering, when tinted,be (:)1,113.te0 tends to harmonise the whole and to 11° 4 . 1 0 ° l lO architectural effect. Mr. Gambier Wrings of t e , compared the encaustic and fresco pain i t n i9 f g oe p i fs c o f ancients, and recommended the reviva l " t oo i d tice of using wax as a medium for eel°llDitcettle,l) varnishing w hen colours are appli ed to a; rit D 4 4 , decoration. Mr. Gambier rea d his PaPerviiiioV;t. earnes t n ess, with great variety o f tone a u hr t Ta tioA" and it was received with m uch applause e Professor DONALDSON made sot ti lu er he i G ,foc re specting the colouring of statues, corie" sidered a great improvement when .3031,',0 oa t 8 ;0 0 far, and he considered it most desira rto cl et ; 3 i "i definite principles should be establish_.ie a be or r . oeL -0 the extent to which the colouring sh° . c oo t Mr. KERR, on the other hand,. said coioo' to be of the old school, which rejected t" ni ld e roPe r ' j of sculpture as unsuitable and iruP , ir . e tl 3 Mr. Digby Wyatt, Mr. Padrnorel ". . oe d the president, and other golden-leo n gi°,leucii.toeopea discussion, and thanks having . a t G u a i ni th b e ie i r o , t w h h: f b Jriaenflr,reyp.lied, the WeWl° vic The n interest. large wit the Ban] will ben inclined At the land yes drawal The C pool, ha' kenhead through cial quo Notic( by the ( East Lc eliding Jan. 5. to the Scrip wi c col o r a da n ai i the regL The the folll Produce 9,541 p £8,769 and on yield, 7 Acco: French The at one ever, h are qua count. are 86 Stock, per Ce 18s. pr Fore Mexica Loan, i 274 28 Coded prem. 1863, E guaran lo an is Mosi ported Bonds In t] littlo South- Stc Mid The quiet, Gc 8 Der C Do. 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