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LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—Dnring the storms of the past year (1868) the National Lifeboat In stitution, by its lifeboats and other means, contributed to the saving of 913 persons from different wrecks on our coasts. The Institution also expended £31,430 in the same period on its lifeboat establishments, in addition to granting £2,173 as rewards. The Committee of the Institution earnestly"A?PEAL to the üblic for ASSISTANCE to enable them to meet the continued heavy demands on the 172 lifeboat Stations of the Institution. Contributions are reeeived by the London and country bankers ; and by the Secretary , Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. .I Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, Colman's Comedy of JOHN BULL. Mr. Phelps; Messrs Swinbourne, E. Phelps, Barrett; liletaarras Heimann Vezin, Isitb,A Adams, 11. Vandetthotl. To conclude w,th the Pantotnime. entitled NUNI BE 4. IClt' ; or Harlequin and the Gnome -Ring of the Gant M.untain. Commence at a Quarter to Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET, Sole Lessee and `tanager, Mr. Bucks one, TO-NIG lIT, A LE6sON Fk.at LIF P. Messrs. Fothern, Chi.ipennale, Comi ton, How:, h endal, Gordon, Rogers, Braid, Clarke, Vincent, &c. ; Mesdames Chippendale, Moore, Wright, &c. After which, TILE SERIOUS FAMILY. Messrs. Buck stone, Iliowe, Farren, Vince nt, &c. ; Mesdames Lhippcndale, More, Burke, Bill, Sidney, &o. Commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Feebler. THIS EVENING, ROUGE E P NOIR. Maurice D'Arbel (a Gambler:), mr. Fechter ; Messrs. Emery, Evans, Moreland, FitZpatriClC, Dalton, Reynolds, Lonvis, Newbound, Andrews, Anderson, Vivlan, Bennett, and Edward Price ; Miss Hen rade, Mrs. Leigh Murray, Miss Grattan, and Miss Carlotta Leciereq. Preceded by THE TWO POLTS. Mr. H. Widdicomb. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. Tii IS EVENING, DELICATE GROUND. 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Lists of Prices wiih rules for Self-measurement and FttsLion Sheet, with Patterns and "History of Loudon," gratis and post free. WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Ails DAY.—Morning, 4h. 40m.—Afternoon, sh. lm. ro-blounow.-Morning, sh. 20m.—Afternoon, sh. 40in. - s Utt LONDON, THURSDAY, JAN. 24, 1867. u'm Deus vult perdere prius dementat. This old and hackneyed quotation must, we should think, have occurred to the minds of a good many politicians, on hearing the rumour lately current in political circles that the Liberal party in the House of Commons intended to call upon Mr. GLADSTONE to resign his leadership. There have not been wanting indications of a feeling of dis satisfaction among the ranks of the ex-Ministe rialists, and in the stormy session of last year open desertion and secret disaffection became common enough. Still that the Whigs should willingly detach themselves from the statesman who has rendered them such brilliant services, and whose reputation and ability have been prominent among their claims on the respect and regard of the people, is a piece of suicidal folly hardly to be anticipated. The Whigs have given the country only too much reason to distrust their professions of patriotism and liberality. Seven years' tenure of office by their re cognised leaders, at the head of a strong majority, not only left the question of Reform absolutely in state quo, but gave us very few other administrative improvements. The Admiralty mismanagement was still a byeword, the Board of Trade and the Poor. law Board failed to give satisfaction ; the holder of the Great Seal became the subject of painful criticism. Their foreign policy excited the indignation of their allies and the contempt of their antagonists. Almost the only brilliant exception to the failures of the Administration was the eminent success of the Finance department. Mr. GLADSTONE, whatever his faults as leader of a party, certainly carried off the laurels from his colleagues. While the Duke of SOMERSET left the Naval reserve in such a condi tion that Sir Jonx PAEINGTON was ashamed to give the details, while Lord RUSSELL had gained the credit of being a " meddler and a muddler" at foreign Courts, while other departments were in a more or less unsatisfactory condition, the Na tional Exchequer was unmistakeably flourishing. There had been a considerable reduction of taxation in spite of many drawbacks, and yet the buoyancy of the revenue showed the confidence and prosperity of the people. Mr. GLADSTONE, as we have said, was the great administrative success of the Whig Government, and upon Lord PALMERSTON'S death the leadership of the House of Commons fell to him as a matter of course. Mr. GLADSTONE'S best friends will not probably contend that he is specially qualified for a party leader. He has too much of the irritability of genius, and too little patience with the opinions and sentiments of those whose temperaments are different from his own. The obstinacy of deeply-rooted prejudice and old asso ciations in a slow and unimpressible mind, the dullness which cannot quickly read the signs of the times, even the intelligence and ability which are of a different nature from his own, find him unable to understand or have patience with them. He is inclined to be intolerant, if intolerance does not spare friend or foe when he is irritated by what he thinks unreasoning opposition. The tact, the suavity and dexterity, the management and finesse necessary to keep together a large and heterogeneous party are altogether foreign to Mr. GLADSTONE. The last session was undoubtedly a very trying one, and Mr. GLADSTONE having suc ceeded in working himself up into an interest in a bill which at first he had little enthusiasm about, was indignant with every one who could not recon cile themselves to its deficiencies. Any hesitation in accepting " The Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill," was immediately set down by him as wholesale hostility to Reform, and the malcontent was branded accordingly. But we apprehend that Mr. GLADSTONE'S worst offence in the eyes of the Whigs was his abandonment of office. Weary of contention, disgusted with the secret reluctance to reform which he detected in too many of his colleagues and his followers, the bril liant leader of the Commons, more jealous of his personal honour than of the dignities of his party, resolutely resigned his office, and, by that resignation compelled the - Whigs to abandon their easy seat for the cold shade of opposition. In the bitterness of their disappointment at an uncertain, per haps a lengthened exclusion, from place and power, it was easy to lay the blame of failure on the man who had worked hardest in the cause which they profess to have at heart. While Lord DERBY was mustering his followers and choosing his Cabinet the Whigs began to perceive that things would have been much better let alone. What a pity it was that their Parliamentary leader should have been so zealous. A little more con cession and conciliation would have smoothed mat ters over, and Reform in some form might have been shuffled through Parliament without disturb ing the political balance of power. Now that the expatriated Whigs find themselves on the eve of a new Session, with Lord DERBY fairly es tablished, and preparing, it is understood, social and administrative reforms on a large scale, they begin to ask -whether they cannot depose a leader whose convictions are so inconveniently strong, and whose earnestness and intensity of pur pose so ill represent the quiet caution and superficial patriotism of the Whigs. Mr. FAWCETT, in his speech the other day, commented upon these grow ing rumours. Party organs have discussed their probable truth or falsehood, and force and signifi - cance have been given to them by an article in the current number of the Edinburgh Review. At the close of an able paper on the " Position and Prospects of Parties," in which due prominence is given to the question of Reform, we find the foilwing significant passage :—" Who may be the chief destined to lead once more an united Liberal party to victory is a question which the future alone can solve. We are not unmindful of the long and illustrious antecedents of not a few who stand foremost in the ranks of Liberal statesmen. We would gladly see the party united under such a headship as past services to country and to party point out as eminently entitled to the high position. But neither the experience of age nor the impetu osity of genius are infallible guides in a new state of affairs, and in critical times patriotism and loyalty to a cause may require that personal pre tensions should yield to experience and the general good." It is not difficult under the polite veils of " the experience of age," and " the impetuosity of genius" to recognise the heads of the RUSSELL-GLADSTONE Cabinet. But what is the " cause" which exacts from their " loyalty" the sac rifice of personal claims ? "If it be Reform we can well understand that Lord RUSSELL, whose con victions and inclinations alike bid him " rest and be thankful," may be called upon to retire from the leadership ; but ou what plea Mr. GLADSTONE, whose principles are in advance of his party, who is accepted as the representative of opinions which are almost Democratic in their character, and who has yet plainly declared himself averse to all extreme, violent, and unconstitutional changes. is to be required to abandon his pdst, is a mystery not to be solved except by personal jealousy and party disappointment. Very certainly if he breaks off his connection with the Whigs, they will not gain much in popularity or influence. Their ad vent to . power, without Mr. GLADSTONE, or with their ex-leader in a subordinate office, would be a hope less dream. The Tories know better how to appre ciate his rare abilities, notwithstanding any draw backs, for Lord DERBY, as is well known, more than once invited his co-operation. The Whigs have been long famous for throwing away their oppor tunities, but in this rumoured design of setting up a King Loo, in place of their lees popular but more THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1867. efficient monarch, they are doing their best to write finis to their politicalc areer. Last Monday the annual meeting of the Brad ford Chamber of Commerce took place, and some interesting speeches were made on the occasion. In seconding the report, Lord F. CAVENDISH, M.P., observed that they should look to the end and ob ject of commerce, and then they would recognise that capital and labour should be spent where the best effects would be produced, and also that those various gifts which have been bestowed on different nations should be thus brought by its mighty agency within reach of all in every land. This is, indeed, the real object which all should have in view ; and surely, when one comes to dwell upon it, one becomes more and more convinced of the desirability of doing all in our power to pro mote and further the important work. It is to be regretted that owing to the war in Germany very little progress has been made with the Commercial Treaty with Austria, and as to the new countries, colonies, and the United States, it cannot in reason be expected, as the noble lord said, that free-trade will be adopted very readily there ; but still perhaps it is no matter of surprise that some should feel in dignant at the slowness with which they take up the notion. There is a good deal of sense in the advice offered in this speech respect ing those interests, and no doubt it would be far wiser and better if, instead of raising vexatious questions in discussing the subject with them, we were to keep to the point, and intimate to them what would constitute their real source of strength. The manufacturers would gradually obtain a firmer hold and increase their trade if the colonists would trust to the gradual growth of local wants, instead of rearing industries which are sickly and weakly. Respecting the financial panic and the suspen sion of the Bank Act, the noble lord made some observations, and he gave it as his opinion that the issue of the notes should be en trusted to a separate department, because if the Bank continued to have anything to do with the issue many would think that the Bank had limited means. Very likely we may hear of some such change taking place before long, for the subject is said to be under the consideration of the Govern ment, and some striking changes will probably occur. It is, indeed, high time that something de cisive was done:in the matter, because the risks and losses are very considerable under the present scheme, which has been tried long enough in all conscience to suit the views of its most devoted partisans and most prejudiced upholders. Another momentous subject of consideration in the present day is that of " Strikes," and, as the noble lord said, it is one of great difficulty and im portance. It has been suggested in some quarters that it might be advisable to get rid of these evils by putting an end to these " troublesome trades' unions ;" but he thought that such an effort would in all probability be attended with failure, and it would certainly be a hazardous attempt. This opinion we coincide with ; but we think with the noble lord that the Legislature can be very profit ably employed in securing " more completely the working man from the intimidation of trades unions." Strikes and lock-outs are fast becoming some of the greatest evils. Among us they are a positive loss to the employers, and a source of frightful misery to thousands of the operatives. We wish we could see any chance of the noble lord's ho p e bein g realis ed that in a short time we should see less of those dis astrous affairs taking place ; but we think, in wait ing for mutual consideration to take place, that the laws might be made more effective, and stronger measures put in force, to check all intimi dation, and to secure that real freedom of choice to the workman which at present he certainly does not possess in many cases. Mr. FORSTER, M.P., proposed that at the flex meeting of the Associated Chambers of Commerce the council be requested to support the; resolution proposed by the Hull, Leeds, and Bradford Cham ber, to appoint a Select Committee of the House of Commons on the subject of Tribunes of Commerce and of Courts of Conciliation between masters and servants. Mr. FORSTER said very truly that it would be extremely difficult to establish these tri bunals in England, for we should " have all the lawyers against them, for they cannot see with out concern . that disputes should be settled without them." However, the time has come when these constant disputes should be checked in some way or other, and the arbitration that is pretty generally employed on the Continent may be of service among us. This motion was carried, and we hope that sooner or later it may be productive of good results, for the subject referred to is one that cannot fail to be one of interest and importance to society at large, in consequence of the many and great evils that abound from the matter not being set on a satisfactory footing—evils that affect, directly or indirectly, all classes of society, from the highest to the lowest. We are glad to see that Lord Lord JoHN MAN NERS, as Chief Commissioner of the Board of Works, has given orders for the lake to be drained in the Regent's-park, which has been lately the scene of such painful events. A body of men are now engaged in the task by excavating a trench. His lordship intends to have the bed so filled up that the water in future will have no more than an uniform depth of four feet. This will be a very good thing, and prevent, for the future, the recurrence of such dreadful calamities as that which has recently horrified the metropolis. It is yet uncertain if any more bodies will be found, but of course the thaw will materially assist the operations of those engaged in the sad search. No better proof can be afforded of the recklessness with which people go on in the pursuit of their favourite pastimes than is given by the records of the Humane Society's office yesterday. It is astonishing that people will be so infatuated, and children were allowed to go on the ice. In St. James's Park two were immersed, but were saved in time to prevent serious consequences. The public will appreciate the wise course pursued by Lord JOUN MANNERS, and the promptitude he has shown in the matter on all sides ; indeed there has been a readiness dis played to mitigate, as far as possible, the bad effects of the late grievous accident, which it is very grati fying to witness ; and we trust it will be long be fore the services of the humane and well-disposed will be so urgently called for again. DEATH BY DROWNING IN TIIE THAMEs.—Yester day morning a lad employed on one of tho vessels in th e Pool, was betting a bucket of water, when, owing to the frozen state of the deck he slipped and fell overboard. H e was immediately sucked under a raft that was lying alongside. This was cut adr'ft, and the boy was got out of the water, having ruptured a bloodvessel, and although all was done that was possible to resuscitate him, ho did not recover. 2ho body was removed to the deadhouse to await an inquest. FENIANISM IN THE NAVY.—The festivals of Christmas-day on board the large line-of-battle ship Li verpool, stationed at Bantry, were disagreeably inter rupted by eleven to twelve sailors on board. It appears, when halt-seas over, they made use of expressions annoy ing to their loyal comrades, and even went so far as to boast of being Fenians and admirers of the Head Centre of that scheming body. They wore immediately arrested, and after being tried, two were sent to Mountjoy, and one was flogged—a second is, we also learn, to undergo a similar punishment as soon as his health will permit it. On their boxes being searched several portraits or photo graphs of Stephens were found, and some reading matter which tended to show lonian proclivities. Skibbeeeen Eagle. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. I 1 New America. By William Hepworth Dixon. With Illustrations from Original Photographs. Two Volumes. Hurst and Blackett. It was but yesterday as it almost seems to us that we were being conducted in imagination by Mr. Dixon among the hallowed ruins and arid plains of the Holy Land. Turning the pages of the two eloquent and noble volumes which were produced by him last year as the record of his pilgrimage through Palestine, we were conducted by him, in a reverent and believing spirit, to the regions ren dered sacred eighteen centuries ago by the divinely affecting and unutterably awful incidents of the Redemption. Under the shadow of the mountains of Lebanon, along the slopes of the hills of Galileo, down the valley of the Jordan, across the plains of Acre, from the shores of the Dead Sea to those of the Sea of Galileo, otherwise known as the Lake of Tiberias, to Mount Tabee., to Mount Hermon, through Nazareth, through Bethlehem, through Jerusalem, we were led by him in a mood so well befitting the regions we were thus traversing together with himself that we had a consciousness all the while in regard to our author that while he moved thus with a firm tread onward in his pil grimage his knee would never disdain to bend upon occasion—that while he gazed around with a glance always keenly penetrant and observant it was with eyes not infrequently suffused with emotional tears —that while he pointed this and that out to our ob servation, as with the steady index-finger of a guide who had mastered as far as might be in any way practicable the geographical, the topogra phical, and the archaeological outlines of his sub ject, it was not only in the spirit of a traveller of nowadays, who, had well thumbed his " Murray," but of one also who had both the Old and the New Testament perfectly well by heart. Alto gether, we retain no t mere l y an agreeable but a very grateful rememb rance o f M r. Di xon ' s two last volumes —the bear esm—t distinctly two of u h lo ly Land. " We o h o is ur " remembrance that he had already otherwise long previously made good his very substantial claims to re cognition as a man of letters. As the biographer of Nicholas Bacon, of William Penn, of Robert Blake, of John Howard, he had vindicated the fair fame of men whose reputations, to say the least of them, in very deed and truth, were not unworthy of vindication. He had, at a still earlier period in his career, sketched with a wonderfully graphic vigour—as with an iron stylus dipped in vitriol--the Literature of the Lower Orders. He had described —as the future biographer of Howard might have been ex pected to describe them, namely, with an uncom promising truth, mingled with a most humane suggestiveness—the Prisons of London. In writing the Life of Penn, he had contended, and, what is far more, had successfully contended hand to hand with Lord Macaulay. In writing the Life of Blake, he had, in recording the deeds of that great English Worthy, Admiral and General, laboured harmo niously side by side with Lord Dundonald. In writing the Life of Bacon, he had triumphantly scattered to the winds the aspersers of the Father of Inductive Philosophy, and, while doing this, had con trived rather seriously to mar the reputation acquired by Lord Campbell as the historian of his own official predecessors, the Lord High Chancellors of England. It was after the accomplishment of these and other kindred labours in the pleasant paths of literature, that Mr. Dixon only last year gave us such good reason to welcome him with more satisfaction than ever, by the publication of his book upon " The Holy Land," a work which we are still dis posed (though without any disparagement whatever, let us add, to these present volumes) to regard as his masterpiece. As if resolved upon the production of the most startling contrast that could well have been contrived, he now claims public attention anew, immediately afterwards, by presenting to the world two companion volumes of a diametrical opposite character to the two but just now particu larized. Traversing with him but yesterday, as we have said, the regions of Palestine, we are to-day spirited away by him to " fresh fiel is and pastures new." New America, that is—the very titlo of these two ex hilarating and vivacious volumes, the key-note to the vivacity of which is struck clearly and reso nantly at the very outset, thus :—[Titne: by the way, August, 1866 —Place : Atchison City, Missouri, U.S.—luterlocutors : a couple of Western boys, hailing, each of them, from Bleeding Kansas, and taking stock (while they converse as follows) of our author and his companion voyageur, Mr. Charles Wentworth Dilke, to whom, by the way, these —.omit. 1 volumes ar e affectionately inscribed by M r . Dixon:] ................ ens - e Guess these Yanks must look alive on this side the river, unless they should happen to enjoy having their eye teeth drawn—ON Judge ?" The man to whom this appeal is made as judge lifts up his chin from a dish of hominy and corned beef, glances first at myself, then at my fellow traveller, and, after wink jug an eye to the right and left, says slowly, 't Guess you are right there, Sheriff." Thereauent—about the drawing of those same meta phorical eye-teeth—quoth our traveller (anecdotally and quite par parenthese) "Five or six years ago, when calling on my old friend Landor in his Flo rentine house, and expressing my joy at finding him so halo and bright (he was then eighty-four), I heard, in reply to my congratulations, these notice able words :—' My dear fellow, say no more about it, I have lost four of my teeth.' When I smiled, the veteran added, 'Do not laugh at mo ; I would rather have lost all my intellect than one of my teeth." A phrase so over-strong, in the emphasis of it, that one is almost tempted to hint that not only four of his teeth had then left him, but that, say, four out of his five wits had already gone to keep them company. So divergent are the views of poe ts no less than of other men as to whether the loss of teeth be matter for lament or gratulation, that we would here offer to our author's consideration as a sort of companion picture to this reminiscence of his own in regard to Savage Landor immediately before the close of his long life, our own recollec tion of Leigh Hunt's remarking to us shortly before the close of his life, that ho had just been exulting over the loss of the last of his teeth Observing whimsically that he felt thereby so much the more etherialized ! Reverting, however, to the threatened drawing of the eye-teeth of any Yank or supposed Yank coming over the border line separating Missouri from Kansas—as plea santly intimated to our author and his travelling companion by those two Western boys designating each other respectively Judge . and Sheriff—we would here again remark that the interchange of those comments of theirs across the hotel table at Atchison last August, strikes the keynote, as we have said, to the prelude of these two most animated and entertaining volumes. Better still, however, than the commencement, is the conclusion of that same opening chapter of the First Volume, where an incident is related that, as Mr. Dixon says, with a twinkling sense of the fun of the thing in telling it—at once raisea him and his companion in the estimation of those two sardonic hinters about the drawing of eye-teeth (Judge and Sheriff) —" Raises us in their good opinion to a height yet higher than that from which we had evidently fal len, enabling us to quit the town, morally speaking, sword in hand and with flying colours. Saunter ing down the street, enjoying our gossip and cigar, we note the word Post-office on a shop front, and on going inside we find there is one letter with my name on the cover, written in an un known hand, on which - three cents are due. Pay ing the money and breaking open the seal, I find the letter is not for me ; on which I fold and re store it to the postmaster, saying it is not mine, and should be kept for the owner, to whom it is perhaps of moment, Eyeing me in a queer way, the postmaster takes the letter, and gives me back my change of three cents. 'Do you see ?' says the sheriff to his nearest friend, ' d—d smart that —read his letter and got his money back ! Jiang me if I think they are Yanks after all.' Dne touch of roguery, it would seem—[here remarks Mr. Dixon, serio-comically, in conclusion, when relating the incident]—Ono touch of roguery, it would seem, is enough to make the whole world kin." Wide as the poles asunder, it hardly needs i be said, are these recollections of New America, when contrasted or brought into direct compari son with their authoeft previous book about " T4e LI: • (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) ATJSTRIii. VIENNA, Jan. 24. The Emperor received yesterday, at noon, the de putation charged to present to his Majesty the ad dress of the Hungarian Diet relative to the Imperial Patent upon the organisation of the army. The Emperor, in replying to the speech of the spokes man of the deputation, said that he hoped that an Imperial rescript, to be promulgated shortly-, would remove all the apprehensions expressed in the address. The Emperor added that he was ready to give satisfaction to the wishes of Hun gary as soon as mutual confidence should render it possible to remove the difficulties still opposing the formation of a responsible Ministry. The Empress of Austria left yesterday afternoon for Zurich, on a visit to her sister, the Countess Trani. BERLIN, Jan. 23. MEAT. PRUSSIA. The semi-official North German Gazette of this evening, referring to Prince von Hohenlohe's de claration in the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies, on the 19th inst., says : " The division of Germany by the line of the Maine, alleged by Prince von liohenlohe to be re cognised by Prussia, is a pure fiction. "If the South German States are willing to voluntarily renounce a portion of their sovereignty in favour of a closer union with North Germany, Article 4 of the Treaty of Prague does not prevent them from so doing." THE ATLANTIC CABLE. Up to noon to-day (Thursday) nothing has been received from New York by the Atlantic Cable of later date than 21st January. a, AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, Jan. 24. The steamer Chicago, from New York, has arrived here. THE INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. GALLE, Jan. 17. The Benares, from China, arrived on the 14th inst., and the Geelong, from Australia, to-day. The Candia leaves for Suez to-day. THE OUTWARD MAIL OF OCT. 20-26. The Avoca (which left Gale two days late) reached Melbourne on the 16th and Sydney on the 19th December. THE OUTWARD MAILS OF DEC. 4-10. The Nubia arrived at Galle Jan. 6. FRANCE. PODIT DE GALLE, Jan. 10. The Messageries Imperiales steamer Dounai left here to-day for Suez, with the homeward India, China, and Japan mails, She has 100 passengers on board, and a full cargo of silk. BOURSE, Jan. 23, Two o'clock.—Rumours of a new and important loan are prevalent, and the market is weak. Heavy sales at the opening have caused stocks and shares to decline, in some cases rather consiberably. The first despatch from Lon don also bring a fall of I. French Threes are at 68f. 821 c., lower by 32}c; Credit Mobilier shares, 493 f. 75c., with a loss of 11f. 25c. ; Credit Foncier decline 12f. 50c.---at 1,427 f. 50c. ; Italian Fives are much firmer than other stocks, and are quoted with only a decline of 5c.--at 54f. 70c. Railway shares also receded ; Lyons 3f. 75„.., Orleans and Northern each 2f. 50c. Three o'cloek.—The close has taken place as fol lows :-- 44 per Cents 9B 80 Do. end month 3 per Cents. 6B 90 Do. end month 6B 95 Credit Mobilier 500 Do. end month Credit Foncier — Do. end month 1435 Bank Shares 3995 Italian Loan Do. end month 54 90 Mexican Loan 5l 90 Do. 80nd5....... Spanish Throes Home Debt — Deferred ............ - VAYS. For Account. 1180 5 9 9 0 3 8 7 1 : Orleans Northern Is L vo y eu o st n the s er and nim. .... ..11 .. .. ..e .. d .. .. i ........................... an .. .... ......... ... 565 .. : Eastern .................... 510 Sardinian . ................................ Austrian ................................. 390 Lombard .................................. 388 75 North of Spain — Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona .................... Roman • ................................. 97 50 MARIO TS. --This day. METROPOLITAN CATTLE. The supply of beasts on offer in to-day's market was average condition. All breeds sh. The top figure was ha lf - bred sheep were in s t m o s tolerably moved off f f g B o ths o ls d o. w a lull, Prime on fair low f D ai o r :v e ril y teaernra ems, fair request at previous rates, viz., from 6 s t o 6 s 4d per Blb s, drooping g ly at barely lat e ra t e s. limited at Mo n d ay ' s currency. in price. The few calvesTh but e inferior on sale inquiry breedsfcochanged an pigss e awwe bandsarse Per 81b to sink the off a l . 8 ci s d The highest price was 4 s 6 d per 8 1bs. sd s d Crle & inf. beasts... 3 6 4 0 Pme ors -wool sheep 5 0 5 8 Second quality do ..4 2 4 6 Prime s'thdo wn a o 6 0 6 4 . Prime large oxen ..4 8 5 0 Large coarse c a l res 5 0 5 4 4 4 10 Smal! porkers 0 Large h ogs ...... 3 6 4 0 Prime Scots, .tc....5 25 6 Prime small d o 565 10 C se r c s o e n . acingdulanuft.ystideoep...4 26 3 4 2 4 6 Lamb.... 08 Od to O. Od. Snelling salves, 20s to 23s ; and quarter-Old store pigs, 25s to 278 each. Head of stock on sale. Total supply. Beasts Cows -- Sheep and lambs 4,012 Calves BO Pigs 2OO Beasts Foreign supply. 212 C0w5......... — Sheep and ... Ca:yea O2 Pigs lO NEWGATB AND LEADENHALL.—Tho supplies of meat aro moderate, and the trade is inactive, as follows :—Boof, 3 s 4d to 4s 8d ; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 8d ; veal, 3s 10d to 54 Od ; and pork, 3s Od to 4s 6d per Blbs 1); , th• carcase. m.y..., .... 14 Oa to £5 15s Od ; HAY. S to h ay, £3 5 s t o £4 158; clover, Supply moderate. CUMDERLAND.—Meadow hay, £3 5s to £4 15s ; allover, .£4 Os to £5 15s ; a n d s t raw, - £1 16 * to £2 4s per load. A fair demand. and straw, £1 160 to £ 2 4 s per lo ad. WHITECHAPEL.—If ea d ow £3 5s to £4 15s ; clover, hay , £4 Os to £5 15 s Od ; and straw, £1 16s to £2 4s par load. Trade inactive. COAL MARKET. Prico per ton at the close of the market. s• d. s. d. Walls End Haswell 23 0 Eden Main Hastings Ha r tl e y...... 18 3 Tunstall Harlon .................... 3 Walls End Holton Hetton Lyons 20 3 Howarth_ Ships at market, 12—sold, 11. THE LATE JULES GERARD, THE LION KILLER. —Some particulars have at last come to hand, tardily enough, of the death, t wo years ago, of Jules Gerard, the Lion-killer. Thos© particulars have been ob tained by the French Consular agent at Sierra Leone, who communicated them to his Government. According to in formation luisidheesd a in ac t i h r e ro S t h ec u t b o o r r s o . Shuboro, a H u i d s h b y a. Al- g b e en a llitho med, . given by M. Huchard, Ffench merchant esta interpreter, the hardy explorer fell a victim to the cupidity Gerard's and ferocity of the negroes whom ho had engaged as his at first pillaged repeatedly diiri ' u , his jouni ro o; i f s r i o7n s Sera boowere to Mania by the chief of the ' conner village. Being thus deprived of all that was absolutely necessary for him to continue his route, Gerard sent back his interpreter to Sierra Leone fur a fresh supply. Tho latter, on his way back to rejoin his master, learnt at the village of Nio- Japan, that he had been drowned by the Kosos, who had conducted him from Woola, to Makalay, and that his body was found:in the river Jong, which flows on the territory of Shuboro. According to Ali's account the body when found was quite naked—the arms tied behind his back, and a piece of wood with a largo stone attached was fastouod to his waist. Ali tried to recover his instruments, but could nut do so. The provisions he had wore takan from him by the negroes, and he himself was beaten, bound, and kept as a slave. Gerard had formed the project of traversing Africa from Sierra Leone to Algiers, passing through Tim buctoo. • stantly, so to speak, from Palestine to " New Holy Land." Passing over, as he does, thus in- America" —it is for all the world like taking the one step from the Sublime to the Ridiculous. -And here we cannot but take exception, without one instant's further delay, to a remark thrown out by Mr. Dixon upon the very first page of his brief and manly Preface, a remark involving as it ap pears to us an almost painfully flagrant non _ sequitur—that is, if we are inclined to judge of any thing whatever by its result s or consequences -- _ _ and Heaven and Earth know we have been toll by Divine lips to judge of a tree by its fruits I The observation we are here alluding to is one to the effect that the planting of the Free States of America is referrable originally to the influence or incentive of two great passions, " a large love of Liberty and a deep sense of Religion." If the former, then it has run into License. If the latter, then it has lapsed into extravagances worse often in their way than what is ordinarily meant by Irreligion. As ' to the latter branch of this same bifurcating non sequitur, has not Mr. Dixon himself supplied us with abun dant evidence of the fact we would here more especially insist upon ? Namely, that the Christi anity carried across the Atlantic by the Pilgrim Fathers, and there planted by them in America, has been transformed and disfigured, has been de graded and polluted by every conceivable abjec tion, by every imaginable distortion, nay, we have no other word for it, by all kinds of abominations. Insomuch that, under all their scarcely calcul able forms and cognomens, under all their eccen- tric phases and fantastic designations, if they can be said to present to us any view at all of Christianity, it is of Christianity Caricatured! Aluggletonians and Southcottians are simply nothing to them—are just mild and rational by comparison. The raving madness of Revi valism represents no more than the chronic con- dition of many among these transatlantic Reli gionists. Jumpers and Shakers rival in the midst of them the Dancing Dervishes of the East— whirling and humming themselves into a delirious vertigo. Any ono, in fact, who is familiar (and who is not?) with Southey's rhythmical celebration of the Cataract of Lodore might readily enough travestie that famous clatter of rhymes by a simple enumeration, thus, of— The Ranters and Jumpers, Revivalist Lumpers, The Quakers and Shakers And other Saint-Makers, The Bawlers, the Drawlers, The Psalm and Hymn Squallers, Anabaptists and Arians, And Predestinarians, Moravians, Arminians, Ghost-rapping Socinians— with countless other sects, some among them hardly admitting of denomination sects that have streamed in a fast-multiplying concourse along the mighty river-shores and across the gigantic wastes of the rolling prairies of America, not so much like any Old-World cataract of Lodore or Tivoli, as like the New World's own peerless and stupendous Niagara. Whether it be that the latent irony of Mr. Dixon's descriptions of the more exceptionally eccen tric among these American Roligioniss b.: so subLle of its kind as to have altogether escaped our recog nition, or whatever else may be the cause of it, he appears to us to write about the Mormons in one instance, in another about the Shakers, and so forth, as if he had a secret leniency or tenderness for them, as if he regarded them, as one might say, with a kind of a left-handed respect for their astounding Creeds and their still more astounding Institutions. So comprehensive is his humanity— we honestly take this to be the meaning of it—so all-embracing are his principles as a philanthropist, that he describes men like Brigham Young, the Prophet of the Mormons, the Patriarchal Despot of the Salt Lake City of Utah, the irresponsible ruler of that vast polygamous herd of human animals, upholding by their credulity the system now adays notorious by the name of Mormonism— he describes, we sayonen like Brigham Young, frankly, philosophically, exactly as they are, exactly as he sees them, and without introducing ono faintest touch of ridicule into his clearly-drawn, sharply defined, and most truthful portraiture. Take, in evidence of this, his sketch of Brigham Young —a sketch dashed off manifestly to the very life : We saw Brigham Young for the first time in his pri vate box. A large head, broad, fair face, with blue eyes, light brown hair, good nose, and merry mouth ; a man, plainly dressed ; in black coat and pantaloons ; white waistcoat and cravat ; gold studs and sleeve-links, English in build and looks—but Eng lish of the middle class and of a provincial town ; such was the Mormon prophet, pope, and king, as wo first saw him in the theatre among his people. A lady, one of his wives, whom we afterwards came to know as Amelia, sat with him in the box ; she, too, was dressed in a quiet English style ; and now and then she eyed the audience from behind her curtain, through an opera-glass, as Eng lish ladies are apt to do at home. She was pretty, and appeared to us then rather pensive and poetical. Tho pit was almost filled with girls; on many benches sat a dozen damsels in a row; children of Kimball, Cannon, Smith, ' and Wells ; in some places twenty or thirty girls were grouped together. Young, as he told me himself, has forty-eight living children, some of whom are grown up and married ; and, since he sets the fashion of attending this theatre among his people, it is only right that he should encourage his children to appear both before the foot-lights and behind them. Forty-eight children born from various wives to this exemplary Prophet, whose harem numbers up, by the way, a round dozen ! From the inspired lips of this human ram there have fallen, by the way, among other words of wisdom reported by Mr. Dixon, and reported by him to all appearance quite seriously, at any rate not by any means sarcasti cally, the following :- 4 , Brothers and sisters in the Lord Jesus Christ " (Mr. Dixon reports Brigham Young to have said as the sum and substance of what is at any rate an eminently terse and practical sermon) "you have been chosen from the world by God, and sent through His grace into this valley of the moutains, to help in building up His kingdom. You aro faint and weary from your ruarch. Rest, then, for a day, for a second day, should you need it ; then rise up, and see how you will live. Don't bother yourself about your religious duties ; you have been chosen for this work, and God will take carp of you in it. Be of good cheer. Look about this valley into which you hays been called. Your first duty is to learn how to grow a cabbage, and along with this cabbage an onion, a tomato, a sweet potato ; then how to feed a pig, to build a house, to plant a garden, to rear cattle, and to bake bread ; in one word, your first duty is to live. The next duty— for those who, being Dane; French, and Swiss, cannot speak it now—is to learn English ; the language of God, the language of the Book of Mormon, the language of those Latter Days. These things you must do first ; tho rest will be added to you in proper seasons. God bless you ; and the peace of the Lord Jesus Christ bo with you. " The drivel of the Mormon Scriptures, the preposter ous chronicles of the Lamanites and Nephites—put forth in the name of the Prophet (not Figs but) Smith !—the sheer carnal animalism of the belief and practice of the Mormon Initiated, the taking to wife by them of any number of pretty girls they may please to select for that privilege, their caring first of all for food and raiment and procreating, for eat ing and drinking and so forth betimes and ad libitum (to all appearance simply because of the considera tion that to-morrow they die)—for none of these things, has the keen-witted and manfully outspeak ing author of " New America," one syllable of derision or of indignant denouncement. His equanimity, his perfect self-possession as the narrator of these wanderings and observations of his among the sectarians of New America, among the upholders of Mormonism especially, fairly bewilder us. They fill us, that is to say, with amazement at a self-command that we must frankly acknowledge we ourselves must have proved wholly incapable of under similar circumstances-- a self-command that would have been sufficiently astounding, supposing we had had to regard Mr. Dixon si aiply as the historian of such men as Penn, and Howard, and Blake, and Bacon, but that abso lutely passes our comprehension when we bear (as we do) in very grateful remembrance his reverential pilgrimage among the hallowed places of Palestine. According to Mr. Dixon's account of the Leader of the Mormons, Brigham Young sees no harm whatever in a man marrying his sister.! Accord ing to the system in vogue, there, in New America, waaong the Perfectionists, again, marriage is au s.bolished institution ! Yet, instead:of speaking, as Ise must acknowledge that we should inevitably have been tempted to speak of Mormon or of Perfectionist, as of " that incestuous and adulterous beast"—words that Shakspere hesitates not to put into the mouth of a Prince, and of a Prince, to who is both by temperament and by intellect a Philo sopher—Mormons and Shakers, Perfectionists and Spiritualists, Promoters and Practisers of Revi valism, with countless other descriptions of so-called Christians clean gone mad—are depictedhere in these wonderfully truth-telling pages with the utmost possible precision, distinctue s, and accuracy in the drawing of every bold outline, of every delicate shade, of every minutest speck in their portraitures. For the truthfulcalinness with which all this is done, we cannot but have, of course, as we have, the very highest admiration. Bewildered we are, as we have said, as to how Mr. Dixon has contrived to write thus dispassionately. But, however, he has contrived it, he has thus written, and those who consult his book are iu consequence clearly the gainers. Nor is it any diminution to the diffi culty of his achievement, but absolutely the reverse, being in fact an enormous enhancement of that an culty, that while scanning New America with his clear bright eyes, while scrutinising calmly and observ antly the Mormons, and the Shakers, and all the rest of them, while descanting thus about them, as we have said, quite dispassionately, without once evi dencing in their regard one solitary arriere pensee of prejudice, our author writes throughout with a sort of abandon of vivacious ease, currents calamo, helter-skelter alinost, and always without any abatement, certainly without any deliberate repres sion of what is among his most conspicuous cha racteristics as an observer of men and things—to wit, an exquisite sense of the humorous. Mormon ism, he thus delineates— "l` ally 0 comprehend these saints (ho says), you must look beyond the beauty of their city; the prosperity of their farms, the activity of their workshops, the extent of their villages, into the spiritual sources of their strength. "Joseph taught his disciples a doctrine by no means new, that in every religion there is a germ of good, and perhaps a germ of evil ; and he proposed, by Divine assistance (and the aid of Iligdon, Young, and Pratt), to extract the grain of good out of every old creed and add it to the church which he was founding for his people. Ile took much from Maho mod, more from Paul, most of all from Abraham ; but in his free handling of religious notions he had no scruple about borrowing from the Hindoos, from the Tartars, from the Mohawks. The doctrinal notes of his church may be numbered and explained : " 1. God is a person, with the form and flesh of man. "2. Man is a part of the substance of God, and will him self become a god. "3. Man was not created by God, but existed from all eternity, and will exist to all eternity. "4. Man is not born in sin, and is not accountable for offences other than his own. "5. The earth is a colony of embodied spirits, one cf tunny such settlements in space. " 6. God is president of the immartals, hiving under [Tim four orders of beings-1. Gods—that is to say im mortal beings, possessed of a perfect organisation of soul and body ; being the final state of mon who have lived on earth in perfect obedience to the law. 2. Angels—im mortal beings who have livod on earth in imperfect obe dience to the law. 3. Men—immortal beings, in whom a living soul is united with a human body. 4. Sprits —im moral beings, still waiting to receive their tabernacle of flash. " 7. Man, being one of tho race of gods, becomes eligible, by moans of marriage, for a celestial throne; his household of wives and children being his kingdom, not on earth only, but in heaven. 8. Tll3 1::nglorn of Gel has Wan again founded on th• earth. The time has cocas for the saints to take possession of their own ; but by virtuo, not by violence; by industry, not by force. Entering the Mormon theatre at Salt Lake City he looks around him and thus describes its appearance— • The pit rising sharply from the orchestra, so that every one seated on its benches can see and hear to advantage, is the choicest part of the house. All these benches are let to families; and here the principal elders and bishops may be seen every play-night surrounded by their wives and children, laughing and clapping like boys at a pantomime• Yon rocking chair, in the centre of the pit, is Young's own seat; his place of pleasure, in the midst of his Saints. When he chooses to occupy his private box, one of hiS wives, perhaps Eliza the Poetess, Harriet the Pale, or Amelia the Magnificent, rocks herself in his chair while laughing at the play. Round about that chair, as the place of honour, cluster the benches of thos3 who claim to stand nearest to their prophet—of Lieber Kimball, first coun cillor; of Daniel Wells, second councillor and general in -chief; of George A. Smith,:apostlo and historian of the church; of George Q. Cannon, apostle; of Edward Limiter, presiding bishop ; of Elder Stenhouse, editor of the " Daily Telegraph ;" and a host of less brilliant Mor mon lights. Manifestly taking Captain Cattle's advice, when found make note of "—wherever he goes, in his rapid journeyings hither and thither about New America, Mr. Dixon jots down his facts, 11 14 sketches, his reflections, just as they come to hini drawing his portraits from the life catch ing the flitting shadows as they fly across the glorious landscapes. And as it was with hull Eastwards in " The Holy Land," so it is here again with him Westwards in " New America." The pencil with which he sketches thus from Nature and from Life is comparable only, in its way, in its magical capabilities, to that wonder ful bottle from which Monsieur Robert Houdin used to pour out at any one's will and pleasure—cham pagne, port, brandy, milk, tokay, coffee, bur gundy, or what you will. It is a pencil that, in his hand, seems to have within it all the colours of the rainbow. They are no mere sepia draw ings, these limnings of his of New America. They glow upon the pages as we turn them. IC is a book the very letterpress of which is picto rial. Insomuch that the engraved illustrations , introduced here and there, as copied from original photographs, seem t) us almost like superfluities. The portrait of Brigham Young, for example, and the panoramic view of the. New Jerusalem. Altogether, the book is even beyond our high expectations in regard to it. As a wonderfully accurate and graphic record of travel, penned by . a Student of Human Nature, endowed with large sympathies for his fellow-men of every clime, and, we will add, especially of every Creed, the work is one of more than ordinary value and im portance. It has more than an ephemeral inte rest. As a truthful description of New America, of America as it now reveals itself to us immedi ately after the clearing off of the tempest of the Great Civil War, it is a work not only to be read at this present moment with the liveliest interest, but to be turned to repeatedly long afterwards o . ° an authoritative and historical delineation of th e United States as they appeared to be immediately after those States had been forcibly re-United. Answer to Whewell's Riddle. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—ln answer to Whewell's Riddle—l think you W ill find that a headless man had no letter to write. go who read wanted no sight. The dumb had nothing to repea t• The deaf had nothing to listen to or hear. The fact is, it was 0. U. D• Reform Club, Jan. 23. AUSTRALIAN BEARS. —A white native bear 1 $ 1 curiosity that we never saw or even heard of until the 3 inst. Such an animal, however, was brought into tool ea that day, from the Ironbank Forest, where it was obta iee by Mr. Banfather, a farmer, residing at Jan Juc. Nativ e bears of a dark brown and also of a slate colour are 1 1 °' - . all uncommon, but perfectly white ones have been, We bs ,. o , - Hove, hitherto almost unknown. Thes e animals s';'-g ,-- ' usually very sluggish, and generally sleep all day; til ono, however, is lively, and sits up looking at the , 51 )8- tators out of eyes of a pretty light blue colour, A t ' e l thusiastic admirer of native products purchased the en iitt- i . and presented it to Mr. Bunco for exhibition at the B et ; aIL cal Gerdens, where it is likely to be an attraction for e ° time. Geelong Register. °l l GREAT CAPTURE OF FISH POACHERS.—O Al; day evening the river police at Galashiels ma ° to capture of an unusual number of " black-fishers." Tijeof had been two pal ties out on the river, one consistiqu, four men, who were "burning the water" in the Deft, bourhood of Melrose. They had a watch set, but W i discovered, and two of the party wore secured. ° 3 : , ° „ o e p the men, in his fruitless attempt to escape, leapt into 3"; 40 pool, out of his depth. Ile was taken, along wit h , b - 1 other men, to Jedburgh ; and, having been examine d, 'h i e et were s3rved with a summons and released. Th e „ o- of party numbered 11, and wore fishing in the viciealice, Yair. They had been watched for some time by the P ri ° got of whom there were nine present. The fishers ha °oa through their night's work and were making for P . o f when they were intercepted by the bailiffs. S °3l l l ° o d, them, on the appearance of the officers, imruediatelYloro • and others made a show of resistance, but seeing that ' re , was no chance for them they yielded. Six of the Too mined prisoners in the hands of the officers, 31 '4 . ip to escaped. Leisters, bags, and about a dozen fish f!' very the hands of the police. One of the fishers had a ' pp 0 Inarrow escape from drowning, having in his baste TV into a pool where the water was dangerously deep:, d,O l . six prisoners wore taken to Selkirk and committed l'" 111, 1 1) ti ( h a fo: tb bt4 Sc 'PI ba; at G, k; Ar