The Sun. — London, England, 1867-12-04 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS—LAsT EVENING. The LORD CkIANCELLOR took his scat on the woolsack a fivo o'clock. GAMBLING HOUSES. Lord TAUNTON said that he would ask the noble duko opposite as to the licensing of certain places in lleli gola❑d. He had seen it stated in the papers that such was the case. It might not be true, but he would ask the noble duko for orders and papers on the question. He bad also to ask whether there was not ono at Hong Kong. The Duko of BUCKINGHAM said that its believed that a gambling house did exist in Heligoland, and be much regretted it, as it was detrimental to the isla❑d. It appeared that the place was leased till 1871. The renewal of the lease was iu 1855, but the authorities, and also the governor, disapproved of the licensing of this Louse, and the license would not be renewed. Tho paper should be laid upon the table. With regard to Hong Kong, it was perfectly true that there were such houses. The noble earl who preceded him (Lord Carnarvon) bad written a despatch, in which it was stated that, considering the mixed nature of the inhabitants, it was an exceptional case, and that registrations andliceuses should be adopted, in order to be the first steps to abolish ing them, and that the police should have their surveil lance, in order to counteract the evil. He, - after carefully investigating all the particulars as to the conduct of these houses, had come to the conclusion that it would be the best plan for their ultimate suppression. He had, therefore, sent another despatch confirming the former, and having heard that the rumour of licensing had got wind in the neighbouring towns he sent a more stringent one, and he was happy to say that the Governor was most sanguine of their ultimata suppression. (Hear, hear.) THE ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. Lord DERBY said that as the other House of Parlia ment proposed to adjourn on Friday next, and as it was better that both houses should adjourn at the same time, he would move that the house sit to-morrow for a short time to pass certain bills, and then a Commission would sit on Saturday to adjourn the house for a short period. In answer to a question from a Noble Lord as to what date the adjournment would take place, the Noble Earl paid that he really could not tell his noble friend. SALE OF REVERSIONS BILL• This bill was read a second time. METROPOLITAN STREET ACT AMENDMENT BILL Lord CLINTON moved the second reading of this bill, and it was carried, with the addition of a rescinding of the 6th clause, relating to costermongers. PROCESSIONS IN IRELAND. Lord CLANDEBOYE moved for the police returns relative to the late processions that had taken place in Cork and other places in Ireland, and which were on behalf of those unfortunate men who were executed at Manchester. He was willing to admit that those persons who took part in these might not have come within the scope of the law, but still he thought that there should be the fullest details as to this expression of partisanship, and as many of the newspapers had taken up the tone that poor Brett's murder was only a mischance, and that the three men were murdered, he earnestly directed the attention of her Majesty's Government to the matter. In his own county, where he was Lord Lieutenant, he had been called upon to say as to whether they ought not, without respect to any situation, to be vigorously dealt with. An Orangeman who wore a riband would have to go to prison, why therefore should the other escape ? He had respect for the green riband, but he did not like to see it degraded as it lately had been, and could not help expressing his indignation if these processions were overlooked. Lord DERBY said that while ho had done justice to the loyalty of Orangemen, he did not scruple to express his great regret at those festivals which were calculated to raise a great deal of ill-feeling amongst people of other religious denominations. He regretted also that the ill-feeling which had been stirred up amongst the people of Ireland by a great portion of the Irish, who en tirely misrepresented the whole facts of the execution of the three unfortunate men at Manchester. That execu tion was not carried out from any political feeling, but as the legal Punishment of an unjustifiable breach of the peace, attended by murder, and it demanded on the part of her Majesty's Government a proper punishment. They had endavoured to exercise that great prerogative of mercy, and they had done so in the case of Burke, but it seemed to have no effect, and perhaps the clemency exercised then was the production of the evil that had followed. With regard to the Act regulating processions, it was not the wearing of a green riband or any other that brought the persons assem bled within the scope of the law. It was when a disturb once was created, and they had not yet heard that such had taken place at these processions, but if t hey did they would be firmly repressed. The motion was then withdrawn. The Consolidated Fund Bill and the Income Tat Bill were then read a first time. The house then adjourned. [HOUSE OF COMMONS—LAsT EVENING. The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. The LORD-ADVOCATE took the oath and his seat for Thetford. CROWN PATRONAGE. Mr. D. GRIFFITH asked the Government whether it was the intention of the Government to advise the Crown to confer a title of dignity on a gentleman who was for a short time a member of that house for the borough of Andover, on account of his having vacated his seat in order to provide a seat for one of the law officers of the Crown? Lord STANLEY said there was no intention to confer any such dignity upon any gentleman. Such a use of the patronage of the Crown would be most improper, not to say corrupt. ....... MERCANTILE MARINE. Mr. O'BEIRNE asked the Vice-President of the Board of Trade whether it was his intention to introdir..,e any measure with reference to the laws which regulate the mercantile marine before the recess? Mr. CAVE said there was no intention to introduce a measure affecting that subject after the recess. NAVAL CHAPLAINS. Mr. EYKYN asked the First Lord of the Admiralty if it was the intention of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to improve the position, pay, and organisation of the duties of the naval chaplains ? Mr. CORRY said the matter was under consideration, not only as affected members of the Church of England, but also Roman Catholics and others. The subject was a difficult one, but no determination had yet been come to. SCOTCH CIVIL COURTS. Mr. WALDEGRAVE-LESLIE asked the Lord Ad vocate whether the Government intended bringing for ward any measure in February, or soon after, so as to obviate the dissatisfaction said to exist owing to the great expense, delay, and uncertainty attending the administra tion of justice in the Supreme Civil Courts of Scotland ? The LORD-ADVOCATE said that certain improve mentshad been already made, and in the event of the Scotch business admitting of it a bill for remedying this inconve nience as far as possiblo would be introduced. 'FETE FORTIFICATIONS. Mr. O'BEIRNE asked the Secretary of State for War whether he had taken any and what steps to prevent the erection of the shields sent to Malta and Gibraltar until the result of the inquiry by the Committee of which he an nounced the appointment on Monday last should have been submitted to the house ; whether he could inform the house when it was proposed that the experiments with reference to the Plymouth and Bermuda forts should take place: Whether it was true that, contrary to the cus tom usually observed on such occasions, the experiments which took plase at Shoeburyness on the 25th of Oct ober last to test the Malta and Gibraltar shiel is was kept strictly private,:even the representatives of the Press being excluded from the ground : Whether the shield was not closely covered ,up in tarpaulins immediately after be ing shut at, and by whose orders was that strict privacy maintained : If he would inform the house whether the specifications and drawings issued from the War office for the target intended to be shot at as a true section of the Plymouth and Bermuda forts were in fact identic 11 with the specifications and drawings issued for the original contract for that fort: And if they were not identical by whose orders were the alterations made, and what steps have been taken, if any, to procure a perfectly correct section of the fort. as it is being manufactured. And if he would inform the house whether it was the intention of the Government to observe the same degree of privacy with reference to the experiments to be made to test the prin ciple upon which the Plymouth and Bermuda forts were to be constructed? Sir J. PAKINGTON said he would endeavour to an swer the series of inquiries as near as possible. The shields destined for Malta were sent out from this country some time ago, and whether they were fixed or not he could not say, and if it was necessary that any strengthen ing was required after the trial had been made there would b e no clith eilty iu effecting it. With respect to the second que ,i nn, h creild only s•ay that the target to represent th e section of the fort was being constructed under con tract, and it would be two months before it was deliTered. l[e (S:r J. Pakington) intended to be present when the trial was made, and he hoped hon. gentlemen would do him the honour to accompany him to witness the experiment. With respect to the third inquiry he could not say the last experiment was kept private ; although the represen tatives of the press were excluded, a very accu rate account of the matter appeared a day or two after in one of the daily newspapers. It was quite true that the shield was covered up immediately after the trial, but by whose orders that was done or the cress excluded he could not say. lle was quite certain he (Sir J. Paking ton) had not issued any such orders. With respect to the trial of the Bermuda shield, the experiment was intended to be on a section identical with the original ; there was to be nothing like unfair play in the matter. With respect to the matter being kept private, it had been determined that the attempt should not be repeated, The motive for making these experiments in an open manner, and allowing the representatives of the press and foreign officers to witness them had baers under the consideration of the Admiralty with a viel of determining how far it was prudent to allow those ger - tlemen being present. However, it hal been stated th at there would be more information gained by throwing the se experiments open to the public, and on application to the proper authorities tickets of admission would be granted to the press and others wishing to be present. (IL ar.) Mr. O'BEIRNE said the hon. gentleman had nbt said whether any alteration from the identical drawing for the original shield had been made in the one experimented upon. He was i:2fortned that there had been a very exten sive alteration. Sir J. PAKINGTON said he did not see the original specifications, but he thought only such alteratiums as were necessary fur the fixing of a section were made. ADJOURNMENT OF THE ROUSE. In reply to Mr. FOSTER, Lord STANLEY said it was proposed on Friday to adjourn the house until the 13th of February. On tho motion of Lord STANLEY, the orders of the day were taken before the other motions, in order that the bil;s on the piper might be sent up to the other house. INCOME TAX BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. CONS 'LIDAIED FUND BILL. This bill (£2,000,000) was read a third time. TOTNES, &c., WRITS BILL. Mr. EGERTON said this bill was merely to prevent the moving of writs for the election of a member for the four boroughs. The bill was read a second time, and tho standing orders being suspended, it passed through its other stages with out opposition. OHL BCH RATES. On the motion that the house at its rising adjourn until Thursday, Mr. HARDY said there was no intention on the part of the Government to bring in a bill to abolish church rates. Mr. NE WDEGATE moved an address to the Crown for copy of all petitions or memorials, and of all communica tions praying for or recommending the suspension, com mutation, or remission of sentences of death or of penal servitude, received by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, or at the Home-office, during the six months ending on the 30th day of Nov. and on the 30th day of June of each year. The hon. gentleman dwelt at some length upon the practice now so common of urging for the remis sion of capital sentences, and the consequent uncertainty of punishment. He did not, he said, advocate any change in the law, but he asked Parliament to obtain such infor mation as would enable it to judge of the operation of the law upon the criminals of the country, and thus lead to the greater security of life and property. The motion was seconded by Mr. NEATE. Mr. HARDY, in opposing it, pointed out the inconveni ence of supplying the information which Mr. Newdegate desired to obtain, and stated that the average yearly num ber of memorials presented to the Home-office for the remission of sentences of death and penal servitude was 1,000. Such publication would also be a grave interference with the exercise of the prerogative of mercy. After a few words from Mr. Neate, Sir G. Bowyer, and Mr. Reardon, the motion was withdrawn. Leave was given to M:. HARDCASTLE to bring in a bill to abolish church rates, and to Mr. HUBBARD a bill for the regulation of church rates. Mr. WALDEGRAVE-LESLIE obtained leave to bring in a bill to amend the law relating to the sale and purchase of shares in railways and gas companies. The House then adjourned. THE GALE. SHIELDS, Monday (Midnight). The northerly gale which broke on the Northum berland coast yesterday afternoon continues un abated in violence, and the sea to-night has been the most tempestuous observed here for many years. A sad catastrophe occurred off the Tyne this after noon. Three powerful steamtugs had gone to sea this morning in search of disabled ships, but, as the weather was bad and the gale appeared to increase rather than decrease, two of them put back. The third, a new vessel, the Pearl, bad gone north, and was returning in the afternoon, when within almost a quarter of a mile of the North Tyne pier she got among very heavy seas. She raised herself upon one of them, and then plunged with her bows down. Another sea seemed to strike her on the quarter while she was with her stern well out of the water. It caused her as it seemed to turn a somersault and disappear out of sight among the broken water. When there was a smooth sea she reappeared, keel up. Tho occurrence was observed by the Tynemouth life brigade, and the apparatus was got out in the hope that she might drive in shore. But she sank, drowuing•her crew of four persons. The Pearl be longed to Messrs. George and Robert Chisholm, of North Shields ; she was commanded by Captain Chisholm, and his brother, John Chisholm, was fireman. John Walker was engineman, and Wil liam Foster, 15 years of age, was the fourth hand. Foster had only joined the boat that morning, the regular hand being unwell. A large three-masted steamship, apparently one of the traders between London and Scotland, wasoff the Tyne this morning, and bad a "Jack" up for a pilot. But as no one could get out she made away south, apparently to Bridling ton or the Humber. A good deal of mischief has been done by the gale inland, and some houses have been blown down in the neighbourhood of Shields. In consequence of the destruction of the wires by the wind there has been no communication by tele graph from this town to-day. A good deal of snow fell to night. HULL, Dec. 2. One of the most fearful storms which have ever visited Hull and the district occurred on Sunday afternoon, lasting with very little abatement till Monday night. About 1 o'clock on Monday morn ing snow fell heavily, and there was a very keen frost. It is feared that the shipping of Hull and the smacks have suffered very severely. During Sunday night and Monday morning great anxiety was felt for the safety of the crew of one of the Customhouse boats. The crew put off about 7 o'clock on Sunday night to board a vessel in the roads, but such was the fury of the storm that they could neither accomplish their object nor retur❑ to the land. After knocking about in great danger for some time, they were compelled to run for the Lincolnshire shore, and . they landed in a distressed condition at Barton, but too late to catch the last train for Hull. Accordingly, much to the distress of relatives at Hull, they were compelled to remain at Barton till Monday morning. About 2 o'clock on Monday morning the bark Home, of North Shields, in ballast, from Antwerp, drove on shore at Withern sea, a water ingplace about 20 miles north of Spurn Point. Almost immediately she capsized. The crew, 11 in number, managed to keep a hold outside the bulwarks, and, being seen from the shore, efforts were made to rescue them. It was found impossible to launch the lifeboat, and therefore the rocket ap paratus was got out. This was so effectively worked that in a short time the entire crew of the Home were safely landed. They were at once taken to the Alexandra Hotel, most of them suffering severely from exposure to wet and cold. Two were in an ex tremely exhausted condition. They were, however, soon restored. The Howe was commanded by Capt. J. Spurling, and was the property of Mr. W. Davi son, Liddle•street, North-Shields. The vessel soon became a total wreck. Early the same morning a vessel went on shore in Bridlington Bay, and two of her crew perished. GREAT YARMOUTH, Tuesday. A tremendous gale from the N. W. to N.N.E., with showers of hail and snow, burst over this dis trict on Monday. Throughout the day the wind blew with tremendous force, the tide rose to an enormous and unprecedented height, and completely covered the lower portion of the town. The Yare overflowed its banks, rising upwards of three feet beyond the ordinary level, and flooded with salt water most of the houses and gardens in South town, a suburb of Yarmouth. At sea the storm raged with great fury. Three vessels —an English bark and two foreign vessels—are ashore at Palling. the Albion, of Goole, was in collision in the Wold with a large vessel, and the master, in attempting to get on board the strange vessel it is said, was drowned. The lifeboats were cruising in the road stead all day, and brought into the harbour many disabled vessels. The railway station was flooded, and the train service from Yarmouth and Norwich was suspended for 24 hours. Yesterday morning, during the gale, the Gor leston lifeboat Rescuer went out to the assistance of a brig on the Scoroby sands. She rescued 17 of the crew, and was returning to the harbour, when just as the lifeboat was about to er.ter, and close to the bar, a fishing lugger named the James and Ellen struck her on the quarter. The lifeboat, which was under full sail at the time, at once cap sized. The lifeboat's crew consist_d of 16 men. She m at once turned bottom upward . AIM Qf the THE SUN, LONDoiN. WEDNESuAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4, Ist,7. crew of the wrecked vessel, as well as the lifeboat, in all 26 men, were drowned. Only seven men were saved by clinging to the capsized boat. They were taken on board a small boat and transferred to the steam tug Andrew Woodhouse, which brought them into the harbour. Most of the Gorleston men were married, and had children depending upon them for support. The lifeboat drifted to the beach. She was followed by thelifeboat Refuge, which pickedup one of the men, John Sheen,aged 30 years. He waa quite dead. The Rescuer, which belonged to a private company, was capsized on the same spot in January, 1866, when 13 beachmen were drowned. Crowds of people, with the wives and families of the drowned men, lined the pier at the har bour's mouth, and as the Refuge returned the scene was heartrending. Wll I TSTA B LE, Tuesday. 'The gale was severely felt here, and caused very considerable damage. The Edward Fairbrass, which was lying in the cut of the harbour, ran into colli sion with two other vessels—the Emily and the George Anson —and drove them from their moor ings ; the two vessels then ran foul of several others and more or less damaged them. One, the Mary, was sunk, while another, the Emma, had her stern, bulwarks, stanchion; bowsprit, and main cutwater carried away. The Para Packet, the Northern Light, the Sarah Jane, the Edward Fairbrass, and the Emily were also damaged. In addition to the damages in the harbour, the Lord Warden was driven ashore just outside so far as high water mark ; the diving cutter Fearnought was sunk in 'Whitstable Bay by another diving vessel driving foul of her ; two vessels, the Mayflower, of Brightlingsea, and the Sally, of this port, were washed ashore near Tankerton Castle ; several small oyster-boats were also washed ashore, and about 50 rkiffs. A place erected at Swalecliff for the breeding of oysters was swept away. RAMSGATE, Dec. 2. The Bradford lifeboat and steamtug Aid have again been out on service, in reply to signals from the Gull and Goodwin lightships, about 6 o'clock this morning (states Captain Shaw). On reaching the Gull lightship they were informed that a large light bearing E.N.E. was being burnt as a signal of di,tress. It was at this time blowing a perfect hurricane, and there was a tremendously heavy sea on. A sunken schooner was shortly afterwards seen in the Gull stream, with her masts out of water, but no one was found clinging to the rigging. Afterwards a dismasted schooner was seen with a steamtug alongside her, and the lifeboat remained by in case further assistance should be needed, but the schooner was enabled to slip her cable and pro ceed to a safe anchorage in the Downs. Before leaving the lifeboat searched around the North Sand head and shoals in its vicinity, but nothing was seen requiring her services, and the boat and steamer then returned to harbour. NORTH DEAL, Dec. 2. At 6 a.m. this morning, says Mr. J. Nethersole, intelligence was brought here that the Gull light ship was firing guns and rockets ; the crew were immediately assembled and at once launched the Van Kook lifeb@at, belonging to the National Life boat Institution, and proceeded towards the light. vessel, and the lifeboatmen were then informed that they were firing for a ship that was near the Good win Knoll in a dangerous position, but not aground. The Ramsgate lifeboat Bradford had also gone off to the same vessel, and found that her services were not required. The two lifeboats then returned to the shore, Lut the wind was blowing so heavy that the Van Kook was obliged to land at Walmer. There is not the slightest foundation for the report that has appeared in some of the newspapers that the lifeboat had capsized and drowned one man. CORNWALL, Dec. 2. A gale, which began yesterday, is blowing with tremendous force from the north-west, and its vio lence seems to be gradually increasing. All day yesterday there was a great fall of rain, but during the night the thermometer showed a material de crease of temperature, and a hoar frost followed, succeeded by some heavy showers of hail. Con siderable damage to shipping and house property is reported, but no reliable particulars are yet to hand. I have to report (says Mr. It Thomas) that infor mation was brought yesterday during church time that a brigantine was ashore on the rocks between Looe Island and the mainland. The lifeboat Ox fordshire, which belongs to the National Lifeboat Institution, promptly proceeded out to her assist ance; it was blowing a gale from the west at the time, and the weather was very thick. Fortunately the vessel, which was the brigantine St. Brannich, from Havre for Runcorn,with flints, held on till the flood tide, when after throwing overboard about 50 tons of her cargo, she floated off and was got safely into our harbour in a very leaky and damaged state. The crew of the lifeboat and the coastguardsmen rendered considerable assistance, and remained by the vessel until she was in safety. After the life boat had returned to the shore, it was reported that a schooner was at anchor close in shore at Whitsand Bay. The lifeboat was despatched to her assistance, but as the wind shifted to the north, the schooner was able to get under way and sailed, it is supposed, for Plymouth. The lifeboat at Mullion was also got out with the view of rendering assistance to the crews of distressed vessels, but her services fortu nately were not ultimately required. Omits HEAD, Dec. 1. The smack Brothers, of Beaumaris, was wrecked in Llandudno Bay, during a strong gale from the north, this evening. The Sisters' Memorial lifeboat was launched with a crew of ten men only. Of these men three formed part of the regular crew, and the other seven were volunteers, some of them not being seafaring men. Owing to the heavy sea and want of strength in the crew the boat was driven back ashore, and all the efforts to launch it again were unsuccessful. Seven of the men then put offjn a shoreboat, and at much risk fortunately saved the two men from the smack, shortly before she became a total wreck. HOLYHEAD, Dec. 2. " We have been visited here with a most terrific gale from the north," writes Admiral Schomberg, Queen's Harbour Master, " and but for the inde fatigable and courageous conduct of the crew of the lifeboat Princess of Wales, belonging to the Na tional Lifeboat Institution, we should have been in much distress. We have had three wrecks—one a French bark, the Bayard. She parted and came on the rocks near the lighthouse. The lifeboat was launched at 9 p.m. in the face of all difficulties— heavy sea and lee shore —and brought all on board the vessel safely to land, about 14 in number. The lifeboat then went out three separate times to an English ship which had sunk near Salt Island, and brought 30 of the crew in all on shore. At 5 a.m she was again manned and sent to act near the Breakwater to save a schooner's crew. The men were ultimately got on to the Breakwater. Nothing that I can express can be too strong for my admira tion of the men, for a worse night I never saw ; it was just such a night as the Royal Charter gale." Another correspondent, probably writing later, says that the boat had been out six times and had saved altogether 52 lives during the gale. Mr. Frank Connelly, son of the Rev. Pierce Connelly, Baltimore, is warmly spoken of as a sculptor by the Italian correspondent of the New York Times. He is at Florence, and has gained a great reputation by an ideal bust of Shakespeare's Cordelia, as well as by the truth and beauty of his likenesses in busts and figures. 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As a natu ral result a small knot of professed politicians had it all their own way, and ended by electing an execu• tive committee of the brightest red colour. It was expected that the Government would let them have a fling, but it turned out dif ferently, and a telegram from the Minister of the Interior destroyed in an instant the result of several years electoral labour. The wrath is great, particularly as it is believed the Minister has in tended thereby to give the advanced party a fore taste of what he will do if they make themselves too troublesome in the approaching meeting of the Italian Parliament. Turning from the political stage, the operatic company at the San Carlo is better than what the public has been accustomed to of late years. The " Africaine"and " Otello" are being given on . alternate nights. The contrast is interesting be tween the most recent work of the great German composer, and one of the earliest productions of the Italian composer, who brought it ought forty years ago on these very boards, receiving about 1,500 fr. for the copyright. It is true that in those halcyon days the best pit seats were about lfr. Vesuvius is also busy for our entertainment. Al though the lava has not yet descended below the great cone, the eruption is daily increasing and be coming more interesting. The weather is bright and clear, so that those who ascend at night and wait until the morning are repaid by a series of the most magnificent scenes that the world can show. The Duchess of Genoa is expected here this win ter. The ladies may thus expect some balls at the Royal Palace, and the Union Club will also give a series. The Union Club is the Almack of Naples, always most liberal for travellers ; its balls are much more select than the official soirees, and have consequently always obtained a brilliant success. Russian America has been formally transferred to the United States authorities. The ceremony took place at Sitka, October 8, Major-General Rousseau acting for the Unitel States, And Captain Fest vehoff, for Russia. A battalion of United States troops, headed by Major Charles 0. Wood, of the 9th Infantry, drawn up in front of the Governor's house, where a large assemblage was congregated, wit nessed the attempted lowering of the Russian and the rise of the United States flag. The Muscovite bunt ing obstinately ref used to come down, and eventually, being torn from the halliards, floated away on the breeze. The Stars and Stripes went up easily and gracefully. The speeches were short and to the point ; the Captain in substance saying, " I transfer the ter ritory ;" the General replying " 1 accept it." The Princess Makesatoff is said to have wept audibly, and probably sympathised with the obstinacy of the flag which refused to be degraded for lucre, and took its own way out of the ceded territory. Except the postponement of the trial of Mr. Davis until March, the only cable item of news is that the majority of the Judiciary Committee have presented their report, which is in favour of the Impeachment of President Johnson. The Albany Reconstruction Convention remains in Session, and is devising disfranchisement measures so sweeping that not one out of every ten white men will be able to vote. A resolution has been adopted, demanding payment of wages to negroes for work performed by them after the publication of the emancipation proclamation. The white dele gates are abandoning the Convention in disgust, and the galleries of the house where it sits in Mont gomery are daily filled with negresses. legislating is a new toy, in which Sambe is not likely to suc ceed, as well as when, with the banjo, "kicking up before and behind." It is probable that the Conven tion feels a little astray, as it has despatched a dele gate to Washington for instructions how to act. The Finance Committee, of whom twoare negroes, neither able to read nor write, has reported an article to make illegal the financial acts of the State, under the Confederacy. Similar Conventions are in Ses sion in Arkansas, Florida, and Georgia. The ex penses of the military government in Virginia for the past ten months, exclusive of the subordinate civil government, has amounted to $5,239,000, which comes out of the Federal treasury. It is no wonder, considering the number of States similarly situated, that the feeling of the North is opposed to the Congressional plan of reconstruction, as there arc good grounds on the question of finance alone. General Pope proposes to send to Congress a list of the prominent Georgians, who, though disfran chised by the Reconstruction Acts, have actively interested themselves in favour of Reconstruction, with a view to their restoration to their political rights by a special Act of Congress. It is thought that this will give Congress the opportunity of re viewing its late policy in this matter, as the terms of the Act have been proved to strike at persons who are now considered to be the most loyal and best dis posed, as well as the most intelligent, of Southern citizens. The New York Citizen states, upon reliable au thority, that John Mitchell, editor of the New York Irish Citizen, has commenced a suit against Major- General John A. Dix, now United States Minister at Paris, for falseiniprisonment during the war, and that Mr. Charles O'Connor will be leading counsel in the case, assisted by legal companions of the highest character and calibre. The captain of ar tillery who, acting under the General's orders, ar rested Mr. Mitchell, will also be proceeded against. At the time of the arrest Mr. Mitchell edited the Daily News in New York, and General Dix com manded the department of the East. The case ex cites much interest, as it will affect, if pushed to a decision, many similar cases. The first question to decide is whether General Dix, or any other officer or ex-officer, can be held individually responsible for acts committed under the orders of a superior, and in the line of duty. The special act of Congress which specially directed and gave impunity to such transactions must first be declared unconstitu tional and void by the Supreme Court of the United States. On the 7th inst. the Tennessee Senate recon sidered the bill probibiting distinctions on account of colour by railroads in the conveyance of passengers. A motion was made to amend by requiring roads to provide cars especially for coloured people. Panama is becoming one of the great commercial ports of the world. It is stated that 22 steamers a month arrive at and leave it for different parts o f the world. Only a few years ago the place was nothing more than a wretched hamlet. REPORT OF THE COMPTROLLER OF CURRENCY.- The report of the Comptroller of Currency has been com pleted and laid before the Secretary of the Treasury. The entire report will make a volume of 700 pages, which will include the last quarterly report of each national bank in the country in detail, and abstracts of the report for the preceding quarters during the year. It will also embrace extended general remarks on the currency question, and the workings of the national bank system. The manner in which it will appear will be a standard book of reference for all bankers and those interested in national banks. FoUNDERING OF A STEAMER ON LAKE ERIE.— Dunkirk, New York, November 4.—The propeller Ackma, belonging to the Western Transportation Company, foun dered and sunk 20 miles off Dunkirk this morning. Two of her hands have just arrived at this place. One of her boats was picked up by the small beat of the revenue cutter Commodore Perry, Captain Otthger, now lying in port here. There is another small boat containing the captain and nine men yet to be heard from. She was all safe at seven bells this morning (half-past 8 o'clock),and is supposed to have landed somewhere near Silver Creek. The Ackma had a full cargo on board when she went down. News from Lisbon, on the evening of the 22d, stated "The American ship of war, the Guard, has sailed for New York direct, by order of Admiral Farragut." FRIGHTFUL TRAGEDY IN CALIFORNIA.—SpeciaI despatches to the San Francisco papers say that a fearful tragedy occurred on the day at the recent election at Little Lake, in Mendocino County, California. It appears that a feud had long existed between two families of the names of Coates and Frost, who resided iu that vicinity. On the day mentioned several members of each family went to,the town armed, and on meeting the elder Coates fired upon vnd killed one of tho Frosts. The firing at once became general between the families, during which five of the Coates family were killed and three wounded dangerously, while on the other side Frost was killed, and his son-in law, Duncan, was mortally wounded. Not a word was spoken by either party during the affray. Yesterday morning the gunsmith's shop of the Messrs. Richardson, Cork, was discovered to have been entered, and 200 stand of the most improved rifles and revolvers stolen during the night. The procession which to-morrow is to pass through the streets of Cork, in mourning for the executed Fenians, excites some fear. A frightful explosion occurred yesterday at Liverpool, by which the old American blockade-runner the Colonel Lamb, now the Greek Government steamer Bonboulina, was totally destroyed, and half the crow of 73 killed. The vessel was blown to pieces by the explosion of her after boiler. A new Order of Mentana is to be distributed to the Pontifical troops. It is a cross, with the words "Pius Papa Nouns," and the date 1867 on both arms. The capitol in Washington i 3 finished. The last stone of the extension was put in its place on the morning of November 14. The recent census makes the population of Wash ington 73,000, 22 000 of whom aro coloured. THE AMERICAN MAILS.—In the house of Com mons Mr. Graham asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer last Thursday what, if any, arrangement had been made for the conveyance of the mails between Great Britain and the United States of America after the termination, on Saturday, the 28th of December, of the present service, which had been so efficiently conducted. Mr. Hunt (in the absence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer) said it would be in the recollection of the house that it was arranged by the late Government, and adopted by the present, that at the expiration of the postal contract with the Cunard Company, tenders for the conveyance of the American mails should be solicited by public advertise ment ; that there should be no subsidy, but that ship owners should be asked to make offers for the conveyance of the mails to America, leaving the United States to arrange for the mails irom America to England. Adver tisements were accordingly put out; but the answers did not meet the expectations which had been formed on the subject. There was one offer from the North German Lloyd's for Tuesday, from Messrs. Inmans for Thursday, from the National Steamship Company for Friday, and for the same day from the Hamburg American Steamship Company, but there was no offer for the Saturday's convey ance. The advertisement was issued by the Post Office authorities ; and it contained a note that the tender might be varied from the printed form. Accordingly, the Messrs. Cunard sent in a letter stating that they were prepared to send in a contract for a smaller sum than was now paid. The Post Office exp;essed a willingness to receive it, and it was sent in. It was for a fixed sum:for ten years, and a year's notice, and they were to receive no sea postage, the Post Office receiving the homeward sea postage from America. An officer was sent over to America to ascertain what America was doing, and communications were going on even up to that day. But her Majesty's Government thought it would be impossible to enter into that arrange ment. They were, therefore, in great difficulty, besides having no offer for the Saturday mail, and they feared that the mercantile community would be put to great incon venience. Under the circumstances ho had been in per sonal communication with Mr. John Burns, one of the managers of the Cunard Company, who had met the case in a public spirit, and had expressed his desire to meet the wishes of the Government ; and within the last few hours arrangements had been settled with the Cunard Company, for one year, for a fixed sum, for the conveyance of the mails. As soon as the negotiations ware complete there would be no objection to laying the whole of the correspon dence on the table. Miss Priscilla Edwards, and two other women, will publish on the Ist January a weekly newspaper at Terre Haute, devoted to the rights of women. There are nine women editors and assistant editors of newspapers in Oh:o. The Round Table tells us—" The price of books is the subject of a letter from Messrs. Leypoldt and Holt to the New York Times, in which some important points are quite clearly stated. The occasion of the letter was an allusion, apropos of Mr. Bristed's "Interference Theory of Govern ment," to the excessive price of American books, and here is the story of it : The volume in question was published at Mr. Bristed's expense. Five hundred copies were printed at a cost of— For stereotype plates... ... $127 24 For paper 41 12 For printing ... 10 00 For binders' stamps 15 00 For binding ... 90 00 $283 36 Aivertising casts . ... 50 00 Total $333 36 Mr. 13risted is to receive from us the half of the retail price of each copy which wv sell. Fifty copies are given to editors. If the remaining four hundred and fifty are sold, Mr. Bristed will realise ... ... 225 00 Leaving him out of pocket ... $lOB 36 That is on the supposition that the whole edition is sold, since each unsold copy is an additional loss of 50 cents to the author, and from the subject of the book—by no means a popular one—neither author nor publishers looked for more than one edition. Mr. Bristed is there fore sure to lose vot less than $lOO, while Messrs. Ley poldt and Holt—who say that the trouble of preparing a $lO quarto would have been no greater—can, under the most favourable contingencies, make no more than $45 — the inducement to both these parties being their interest in the views set forth in the bGok. Whence, argue these publishers in a manner that cannot, so far as wo see, be gainsaid, it is necessary to charge for the popular books that do sell large editions enough to pay themselves and their clients for hose which do not. The causes of high prices they further enumerate thus : "I.—The Tariff.—An ingenious means of making the purchaser of most of the materials used in book-making pay $2 to certain officials and protected interests, in order that $1 may get into the national Treasury. "2. The Absence of an International Copyright Law.— Which deficiency prevents American authors and pub lishers from collecting their profits wherever the English language is spoken, and obliges them to collect them all here. "3. The absence of a class of readers who habitually pay high prices;" in regard to which last we regret our inability to quote in full. "In the European market," slys the writer, " there cir culates a dim suspicion that a book has had something to do with brains. For instance, in England a book con t iining the ideas of kill is worth many times as much as a book of the same mechanical attributes containing the ideas? of Munlbach. Here Muhlbach's Joseph 11. sells for the same price as the somewhat larger Mills' "Logic." In Europe the man of culture enough to read Mill is supposed to have acquired his culture through the possession of money enough to pay for him. And he is supposed to have acquired, through his culture, sense enough to see that the sale of books of that class must be limited, and that, therefore, in order to adequately remu nerate author and publisher each copy must command a high price. . . . " Books of a certain class are wanted as soon as they appear. People who can afford it will pay a big price to get them at once. In Europe they allow such people the privilege. . . . " It appears, then, that the European publisher has two sources of revenue which tho American publis'oer has not —in the willingness of readers of good books to pay good price; and in the readiness and ability of expectant curio sity to satisfy itself at an absurd cost. This gives him room to carry on operations not affected by these influences at a rate of cheapness which Americans can hardly dream of. When a demand for a popular edition of Mill's socio logical works arises in England, the reward already reaped and constantly accruing from the more expensive editions enables the publisher to make the cheap edition at a price staggeringly low ; and when any book is published purely for the million, it can be done at a rate which, if applied to all books, would not pay a publisher's office expenses. " The case with us seems to be but one more illustration of the averaging effect of Democratic institutions. The rich and cultivated pay less, so the poor and ignorant must pay more." There is one other respect in which foreign publishers have an advantage which Messrs. Leypoldt and Holt seem to have unaccountably overlooked. This is the sure sale they can rely upon to the oirculating libraries—a point elaborated in the last Paris letter of The Publishers' Circular, where it is shown that this is of itself eßough to secure the publisher against loss. This consideration—the direct and very large interest to publishers of such wholesale pur chasers —adds another to the many occasions for wonder that we are still without anything to correspond to the English Mudie's." Part I. (new edition) of " Cassell's Popu!ar Edu cator" has just been issued. To those earnest and intelli gent youths determined on self-education, if deprived of the advantages of school, this work cannot fail to be use ful. It is issued in numbers at 11 , 1. each, and contains lessons in the languages most in use, as well as in every branch of knowledge. It opens with lessons in French, a language, we believe, to bo quite unattainable unless taught. The mass of information condensed into the 64 pages now before us is perfectly bewildering. To school teachers the work must be peculiarly valuable. A lesson in punctuation not only tersely lays down the rules, but curiously exemplifies their neglect. A commissioner for lighting one of the largest commercial cities of Europe, by misplacing a comma in his advertisement, contracted for but half the supply. Re represented the lamps "as 4,050 in number, having two spouts each, composed of not less than 20 threads of cotton." What he meant was that each spout had 20 threads, and the comma should have been after spouts, instead of after each." The clerk of a congrega tion in Scotland had a paper handed to him, as the custom is, to read before the minister stood up to pray with or /hr the congregation, containing the following words un pointed :—" A man going to sea his wife desires the prayers of the congregation." The clerk read it as if a comma had been put after the word wife, and unfortunately excited in no small degree the risible faculties of the people assembled, thus : —" A man going to sea (see) his wife, de sires the prayers of the congregation.' " Mr. Henry Latham's book "Black and White" is alluded to in the Round Table of the 16th inst. The book had not reached America, and the writer's remarks were on the comments contained in the Atheneetim. We have not read "Black and White," and we are not a little surprised and amused when the sour krout of the United States was thus dished up and placed before us:- "'lf you do not like Terrapin, you will not like America,' said Morton M'Michael, the pleasant Mayor of Philadelphia, to an English guest. This sort of saying is becoming common in the United States. Every English traveller who finds himself in good company, especially in Richmond, Balti more, and Philadelphia, is tested with Terrapin. Ile may not know what isgoinl;,- on ; what is expected from him; but his quick sense will tell him that, on a certain dish of soup being placed before him —a black and most unsightly look ing dish—the eyes of his friends and hosts are upon him. If he pauses at the sight, they wait and watch : if ho re coils from the taste, they change colour ; if he scads the plate away, they despair. lie may as well take his port manteau and sail for Europe. If he should smack his lips, cry Bravo! what is this ?' and cull for a second helping, his fortune is complete; the company will accept him as a brother, and from that moment he will be enrolled among tho choice spirits of the world who are recognised by our cousins as friends of America. 'Once,' said a great be liever in this test, was rather staggered. A man came to Baltimore with good letters of introduction ; he was a scholar and a Republican, and his whole heart seemed to bo alive with love for us and for our institutions. We set Terrapin before him. He turned up his nose ; he pushed it away. But events justified him. Ile was no friend of America; for when our great trouble came upon us that man was one of the sharpest thorns in our side. How could he be a friend of America when he could not eat Terrapin ?' Mr. Henry Latham liked Terrapin ? Accord ingly, the spirit in which Mr. Latham has written about our brethren in America is commendable in a high degree ?" Oa this surprising statement the knight of the Round Table remarks:—" To us—although we have heard much of the dish, have sometimes seen it, and are aware of the im portance it assumes in the eyes of such traditional English tourists as Mr. Paulding waged war upon—this is a revela tion. We have lived in Boston, New Haven, New York, Philadelphia, Mobile, New Orleans, San Francisco, Sacra mento; are not unfamiliar with Baltimore and Richmond, the two other specified cities ; are American,' so far as one can be by parentage, birth, education, and all other essentials that suggest themselves - yet to this day we have never eaten or been offered Terrapin. Still, if Mr. Latham and the Atheneum reviewer liked it we are very glad they got it, and only object to having it made our national dish in the same way that beefsteak, potatoes, frog's legs and horse, olla podrida, pate de foie Bras, candles, train-oil, are the dishes associated respectively with Briton, Irishman, Frenchman, Spaniard Strasburger, Russian, and Lapp. The misconception seems to us as great as that of the Blackwood writer about our 'lnroads upon English' in his parenthetical explanation that persimmons are nuts. Even against Mr. Trollope we have a similar grievance, which, however, we may keep until we can speak of his Lotta Schmidt, and other Stories,' two of which contain the offences in question." Mr. Fitz Hugh Ludlow is at work upon a novel. The Rev. S. Irennus Prime is to make a book of his letters to the Observer. Mr. Edward R. Sill is about to publish through Messrs. Leypoldt and Holt the first volume of his collected poems. Airs. R. 11. Stoddard is soon to publish a new novel ontitled " Temple House." Liko her earlier stories, it is a story of American life, the scene lying in a new Eng land village. Miss Dodge—Gail Hamilton—will soon give us another little book, entitled "Woman's Wrongs." John Mitchell is publishing in the columns of his paper, the New York Irish Citizen, reminiscences of Gen. Thomas Francis Meagher, being a graphic personal his tory from the editor's pen of the Young Ireland move ment of 184 F. General John Piatt is in Union-square, New York, preparing some volumes of recollectioLS, political and military, which are to be issued early yvlct year. THEATRICALS AND A.TIUSEMENTS. (From the Anolo-imerican Times.) We cannot tell what al) sensations were of Mad Ho. Clara Louise Kellogg when she first stood on a Lon don stage and faces the thousand curious eyes fixed upon her, the illarions stranger. A young lady, with a great reputaticr.to maintain, however confident of her own powers, musinave shrunk somewhat startled at the trying ordeal. 'rho restraint caused by this feeling could not fail to l oss ,,i the great powers of the artiste, and there can be little doubt that, as Madlle. Kellogg has grown accus t,,ied to the new sceuo of her prformanci, and has .vgained her ease and self-command, she has become more enchanting as she returned to her natural self the prima donna who had charmed the citizens of New York. Seldom has a stranger at once taken such a place in the musical world in Europe as that to which Miss Kellogg has stepped. The metropolitan press is unanimous in its verdict. Critics may differ in detail. They may hold opinions which clash as to the rendering of certain cha racters, but none differ as to the powers of this young lady, either as a singer or an actress. Our space does not admit of our culling the various criticisms, but we intend occasionally to notice some, as the career of the gifted American has a deep interest for her countrymen. The opinion of the Saturday Review is thus given : "As a singer, Madlle. K—, while a long way on the road to excellence, has faults to conquer as well as merits unreservedly to commend. Her voice, a true soprano, is reso nant and telling, without being powerful. It has been well trained, but still, in rare instances, lacksfurther cultivation especially, for example, in the method of taking the higher notes of the register-- not so much in passages where they are reached tep by step, as in those where they have sud denly to be attached. She boasts, on the other hand, the precious quality of being invariably in tune ; and this is allied to extreme sensibility in cantibile phrases, her delivery of which, but for an oczasional ten dency to drag the time, and thereby to exaggerate expression, would be absolutely faultless. But for the last easily remedied defect, we can imagine nothing more thoroughly exquisite than her manner of singing The Last Rose of Summer,' whether in Italian, or when in response to an encore, the genuine heartiness of which is unmistakeable, she substitutes for the foreign adaptation a verse in Moore's own language. That her voice is flexible, no less than telling and sympathetic, is clearly established by her facile and brilliant delivery of the Air des Bijoux' in 'Faust'; and of the cavatina at the close of the first act in La Traviata.' Then her articulation of the words, her sense of accent, her balance of phrase, alike in tempo giusto,' and in tempo rubato' in the strict division of time, and in its measurement at discretion, aro irre proachable ; while last, not least, her pronunciation of the Italian language is so uniformly correct and musical that she might be almost taken for an Italian-bred. Each of the three operas in which Mdlle. K— has hitherto per formed has earned for her a signal and honourable success, and the greatest hopes are reasonably entertained of her approaching performance in ' Linda Chamouni.'" These expt.ctations have boon fully realised. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. —The American Champions, added to the old favourites of the circus, make up an unmatched company. The former were organised in the United States, culling the cream from equestrians and gymnasts, for a grand display at the Paris Exhibition. During the summer this wonderful trospe performed in that capital, attract ing, as they say, upwards of 850,000 persons, among whom were all the crowned heads who visited the Frencli, metropolis. Although we are not inclined to go into announces itself in language which does not err on the the ecstacies attributed to the Parisian public and press, wo cannot deny that the press ware in a measure justified in their enthusiasm by the performances. Mr. Robert Stickney is a specimen of mankind who would form an admirable model for a sculptor. II presents a more beautiful development of muscle—so light, graceful, symmetrical—as scarcely to be excelled. Strength as well as activity generally go with symmetry and beauty of figure, and are seldom allied to heaviness, but never to clumsiness. The American gymnasts illustrate this, Kelly, whose feats have never been matched, being tall and thin. Their performances aro really marvellous. The leaps from a spring board are bounds into the air, where they seem to dis port themselves like tumbler pigeons. Each performer is characteristically marked. One appears to rise and turn at the greatest height, his head, not his feet, passing nearest the object he clears. Another shoots off like a rocket, his flight through the atmosphere being almost as rapid, nearly all the arena in which stand 12 horses being cleared at a bound. A third springs into the air, turning two summersaults ere he again alights. Scarcely less sur prising is the performance of the Hanlon Brothers. There are three of them—the second stands on the shoulders of the first, and the third on those of the second. The uppermost springs into the air, the second jumps from the shoulders of the first, and are lie has reached the ground he who had been uppermost has alighted i❑ his place, having turned a summersault ere ho descended to the perch on the lower's shoulders. Not only do they pring from the shoulders of the one to those of the other, but turn summersaults in the air as they go. There is some horsemanship of as unusual a character. The horse rushes round the ring freed from every restraint as nature made him; no curb, no padded saddle, tho equestrian stands on the well-groomed back of the boast, and what he does is done on that platform. James Robinson does not ride his horse. From the arena he springs to its back as it rushes on, and there disports himself as on a stage. For a period he is half the time on the animal and the other half in the air, flying through hoops and turning summersaults as ho goes. One sees a rushing horse, one sees what appears a flying man—the two are connected, but one scarcely knows how. The educated animals form a most interesting portion of the entertainment, and John Bull's love of clowns is shown by the roars of laughter with which their sayings and doings are greeted. One of these clowns is certainly an admirable specimen of his craft, and the most perfect horsewoman we have yet seen, mounted and dressed as if for a display on Rotten-row, maintained a seat so graceful, a hand $0 light in command ing, that both she and the horse made a picture well worth the pencil of an artist. The house was so crowded that we were compelled to stand, and the thunders of applause predicts a success in London for these champion gymnasts and equestrians as great as that which crowned their efforts in Paris We cannot allude to this theatre without a word of praise for the admirable way in which it is managed. There is no cleaner, better ventilated, and more neatly appointed house, nor any other whore the visitor meets with more civility—a contrast to the snobbism of the servants of the greatest opera in London. HERR lIAUSE'S CLASSICAL CONCERTS. On Thursday evcnin2, the 21st inst., Herr Ilause, who is already we'l known to Americans from his performances in New York and Boston, gavo the first of his intended series of six concerts at the Qu-en's Concert Rooms, Hanover-square. The music performed was all classical, selected from the compositions of Mozart, Hummel, and Herr Hause himself, whose playing cannot be too highly praised. He possesses all the qualities which characterise a great musician, viz., force and brilliancy of execution, combined with delicacy and softness of touch. His compo sitions show that he possesses a theoretical, as well as practical, knowledge of his art; and ho will doubtless take a high place among the musical professors of the metro polis. The remaining five concerts will take place on Thursdays, December 19th, 1867 ; January 30th, February 27th, April 23d, and May 14th, 1868. An American paper says that Mademoiselle Adelina Patti will return to the United States after fulfilling her engage ment at St. Petersburgh. THEATRE CO3HQUE, NEW YORK. Cotton, Sharpley, and White evidently possess a fine sense of the ludicrous; for there is never a night in which they fail to present one feature or another which fairly convulses their auditors with laughter, and loaves them gasping for breath with an aching head, too exhausted to indicate their alo proval by applause. The last laughter-mcving absurdity is the introduction of the African Gorilla and the "White Elephant of Siam." Their gorilla, like Barnum's, has a tail which Du Chaillu tells us is not an appendication of respectable gorillas in the place where the good gorillas grow. But the " Comique " gorilla is such an irrepress ibly mischievous little beast that we pardon his tail and sit paralysed with laughter at his antics. The White Elephant , aside from his wonderful resemblance to Nature in his make-up and manner, is also a very ludicrous anima), which flaps its ears, swings its trunk, and moves with that slow precision and dull gravity proverbial to the sure enough quadruped. It is a pleasing novelty, and provocative of more genuine fun than anything we have seen since Horace Gree ley, with his white hat and benignant countenance, wandered into the arms of the Grand Duchess, when he meant to have attended a horticultural and mechanical exhibition. Sharpley shoots off sharp utterances with the rapidity Of a repeating rifle, and always hits the bull's-eye. Dobson and his wonderful banjo playing, Dick Ralph in negro eccentricities, and the queer, ungainly, dexterous Japanes e, make up the amusing portion of the best bill ever given at a variety show in this city.— Wilkes's Spirit. IVilkes' Spirit says :—" We are pleased to hear that Miss Kellogg has made a brilliant and enthusiastic success in London at Her Majesty's Theatre, as Marguerite, in 'Faust.' " Thayer and Noyes' Circus is in Washington , with Dr. Thayer, the cultivated clown, and the magnifi cent lions. Offenbach's compositions are said to be plagi arised from Chinoso music two thousand years old. Blind Tom, the wonderful pianist, is at Phils" delphia. " lake scene " of the new piece which is ? succeed the " Black Crook " has been rehearsed, au' 2 pronounced surpassingly beautiful. MINING REVIETV. COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL SUMMARY. Under this heading the Cornme , A;ial Herald alq Market Renkw makes the following interesting an d truthful remarks upon the material progress an d growing resources of the racific Coast. The first three quarters of the year just brough t to a close have been marked by a large average: degree of prosperity among the people, not only 01 California, but throughout the entire Pacific coast. Glancing over this period we find that nearly every branch of industry and field of investment has me t with a fair, and, in many instances, with a munifi cent reward. Rarely ever before in the history. of the country has such great and generally gratifying progress been made in every department of busi:, ness as during this time. Labour has been in ful l deleand and well requited ; manufacturing has been active with remunerative prices, and money abun dant at moderate rates for all legitimate purposes . The shipping interest has been specially flourish ing, the tonnage of the port having employed th e most of the time to its fullest capacity. Trade all commerce, without being attended with the libera l gains of earlier years, have been healthful and oeea" sionally active, there having been but few failures or other financial disasters to record. Mining en terprise has not only escaped the ruinous losses that so often befel it a few years since, but has, for th e most part, been attended with satisfactory results, indicating for this important branch of business more steady and profitable returns than has eve r yet attended it. Payments by interior dealers hav e generally been made with promptness, pointing W U prosperous trade and an easy state of finances through' out the country. Ship and boat building has revive"' not only at this port but at other points along t he coast, it being particularly brisk just now about Page' Sound, to which locality, because of its advantages, much of this business will probably be hereafter transferred. Indeed it seems likely that this nitig: nificent water will soon become one of the greates t centres of naval construction in the world, the facia lities for shipbuilding being greater here than at any other known point. As customary, trade at this point has been no i re active during the third quarter of the series uncle , review than throughout the others, the business .° 1 ; the past three month s com p ar i ng f avoura bly %v it that done in any f ormer corres p on di n g perio d. , Orders for machi ner y, b o th f or quar t z m ill s , mari ne ' railroad, and other purposes, have been large, ke e p; ing the most of our fouudries and shops fully engag e t _ A new item in this line consists of architectural ells d ings, a vast amount of w hich i s n o w b e i ng erripkq e d .. in the constructio n o f th e b e tt er c l ass o f built - 1114r,, Agricultural implem en t s are a l so now b e i n g largV e manufactured in this State, those of home Ine, o being, like our quartz mills, generally preferred 4 t the imported article. It is gratifying to observe there has been less dispcsitiou manifested ao 2 e P t ' s our inhabitants thus far the present year to emig ii ra as to points beyond the limits of the State, as we.u.o, on the part of our moneyed and business ment he l ra 0 vest in foreign and other distant localities, returns, as experience has amply shown, are by ii means so large or certain as nearer home. ing Greater attention is now being turned to farm tio and similiar pursuits than to the more precar ie _ i , business of mining, and as a cons equence good chive cultural lands, as well as othe r ki n d s o f prodac ti ey real estate, are appreciatin g i n va l ue . The zu °ll accumulations of the count r y—gre a ter now ,11 ever before, as the d e p os it s ma d e i n the savr 0 r , banks show—are being utilised more than -o a , merly in the purchase of lands for cultivatiOcti or of city p ro p er ty f or i mprovem ent, o lu u , also being used in efforts to establish ma n es , facturing in a small way, or, in some insta ll , be , through associated capital on a larger scale ; th e speaking a settled confidence in the future et, 00 city and State, and indicating a growing thri ft the part of the labouring classes. The Price of Gold. av a The quotation of gold at Paris is about at P a " g. the short exchange on Loudon is 25f. 124 c. per .£l. store on nnparing these rates with the English Mint Pricteh,s £1 its. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appe , :: roll is about 2-.oths per cent. dearer in Paris than 4 don ne course of exchange at New York on London for _ 4 O at 30 days' sight is about 1091 per cent. At this rate tn;ca is no profit on the importation of gold front th e if° States. Births. the CLEMENTS— On the Ist inst., at East Hothly, SlistAo wife of 11. Topham Clements, Esq., late Cal )l3 ' Light Dragoons, of a daughter. gang' IlAnnEnToN—On the Ist inst at Latchmore lio ns-, 5 0,.. common, S.W., the Viscountess Herbe rton , of a e uri heir. b the HARSHALL—On the 2d inst., at The Close, Nonv.'e all '00; wife of Captain Harry Marshall, Queen's Royal 1J of a daughter. iages. BRIGGS —WILLOUGHBY—O Marr n tho 2d inst. , at Netl feb6 :o °, ; ll Switzerland, David Briggs, of Kelstern Gr ugald t rioi Ca wkwell House, near Louth Lincolnsh ire h. , to i 3 o l u o grghabny , , The Villa, yo n g s i o t surviving It daughter of Air'''. , t ta ct), OURILIE—G navEs— n the 21st Oct., at St. Peter's ', O of Fort William, Major Mark Edward Currie , second son Sir F. Currie, Bart., to Catherine Louisa, only daub of the late Major-General 11. M. Graves. Dths. l a te OC t HUTCHINSON—On the Ist e i a nst., at Belveclero-to iate Brighton, Major-General Edward IL Hutchinsoll, commanding .'s 35tg, aged 67. KENNETT—On the Ist ius h t R , e at iment g Til ato Forest..,—,Lodrth Crawley, Charles Kennett,. Esq., late 18th aged 30. Tbog• RICHARDSON—On the 2d inst., at Charlwood-street, L.eoto Richardson, Esq., formerly S u rgeon-Major of th?,..'11.0. Fusilier Guards, and Surgeon Es.traordivary to /- 1 the Duke of Cambridge. SNowDEN - On the Ist Est., at Ramsgate, G. S. Sno Esq., F.R.C.S. Eng., aged 59. London : Printed and Published by WILLIANI AN l) _,.' -- 1 12, Of of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TILE SUN O fAce, 01° 01 in the Precinct of:the Sc voy, in he 0 " 11 ' 2011(1CUOS3L—Wednealay, pocentor 4, gi37. A~ After After After After After After Afte r Afte r Lond on 811 1( 111 A Tbi e n t b linP7 is Pi , Sold i „ D Y th e Wbni AsaiA R. 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