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THE ATRE ROYAL DRURY - LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. P. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, Colman's Comedy of JOHN BOLL. 3t•. Phelps ; Messrs. T. Swinbourne, E. Phelps, Barrett ; Mesdames Hermann Vezin, Isabel Adams, H. Vaudenhoff. To conclude w,th the Pantomime, entitled NUMBER NlE' ; or Harlequin and the Gnome-King of the Giant un tan. Commence at a Quarter to Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, lIAYMARKET, Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Buckstone, TO-NIGHT. A LESSON FOR LIFE. Messrs. Fothern, Chippendale, Cmpton, Howe, Kendal, Gordou, llogers, Braid, Clarke, Vi o ncent, ,te ; Mesdames Chippendale, Moore, Wright, &c. Al ter which, THE SERIOUS FAMILY. Messrs. Buck stone, Howe, Farren, Vincent, ; Mesdames Chippendale, More, Burke, hill, Sidney, &a. Commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.- thole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Feehrer. THIS EVESiNG. BOUG E 31surice D'Arbel (A. (;ambler), Mr. Pechter; Me,srs. Emery, Evans, Hot e. and, 'tzpatrim Dalton. 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It is very likely that the actual outlay maybe the same or even more, but the question is, whether it cannot be more efficient and produce tangible results, instead of a long row of figures and a list of officials. Mr. SEELY, M.P., always a dangerous critic of the Board, has just been refreshing the public memory in regard to the Admiralty statistics. At a meeting of the electors of Lincoln on 'Wednesday last the two borough members were present. Mr. lIENE.I GE had enough to do to defend himself from the charge of hostility to Reform brought against him by some who were displeased with his votee last session. Mr. SEELY, however, after de claring himself an advocate of household suffrage, left general politics alone, and proceeded to de nounce the mismanagement of the Admiralty and the shortcomings of Parliament in dealing with that mismanagement. lle reiterated the charges which he had brought against the naval administration in the House of Commons, declaring that the Admi ralty had never disputed his figures with regard to the cost of ships, or that if they had they were after wards forced to admit the truth of his statements. The live old vessels which were repaired at a cost ex- ve, ceeding the price of five new ones were again referred to, and the anchors furnished by BROWN, LE7-iNOX, and Co., were the subject of fresh strictures. These anchors, according to Mr. SEELY, are authors of a particular pattern, condemned by a ccmamittee of inspection some twelve or fourteen y ears ago as being the worst of seven specimens submitted for examination ! Lord CLARENCE PAGET said Mr. SEELY had answered his complaints about the cost of these anchors—about £170,000 more than the market price in the 25 years during: which they have supplied the Government. Lord C. PAGET said, " We must take care of the lives of our sea men—we cannot have bad anchors." Mr. SEELY asked, who wanted the Government to have bad anchors? Ile, for his part, wanted the Government to have the best material possible, but he did not see why they should pay extra money for inferior goods. As for the iron ballast which Mr. SEELY calculates is answerable for a waste of £150,000 or £lBO,OOO of the public money, he expressed his conviction that " those pigs would squeak" when Parliament assem bled. Some of his statements have, no doubt, been disputed, but there is quite enough substance for serious complaint. Mr. SEELY, for his part, is not disposed to let the matter rest, but is deter mined to bring the Admiralty accounts again before the notice of Parliament. Sir JOHN PAKINGTON is, we believe, sincerely anxious to secure an efficient and economical administration, but he has great difficulties to contend against, many of them exist ing in the very constitution of the Board. He has, during his former discharge of the duties of the office, been of good service in increasing the naval resources of the country, and we hope he will not rest until he has considerably increased our fleet. He must, however, be cautious in adopting new theories, and must submit them all to the test of practical experience. It is one thing to withhold a fair trial, as was done byl the late Government in the case of Captain COLES, and another to permit a large outlay on untried and, possibly, unsatisfactory schemes. We hope our First Lord will avoid both extremes. He will find enough to employ all his energies. Probably, however, the whole Board of Admiralty may be the better for a little severe but wholesome criticism, and we are, therefore, not sorry that Mr. SEELY keeps their delinquencies so resolutely in mind. Lord ELcno's remarks are always worth hearing, and many will be glad to find that he has spoken on the vexed question of strikes as well as upon other topics. Last Saturday the noble lord deli vered on address at the request of the Miners of Mid-Lothian, in the Corn Exchange at Dalkeith. He commenced by stating that he felt especially honoured by their asking him to come among them just now, when he bad been held up to reprobation as an enemy of the working classes, and when the " great agitator himself had, on the Glasgow platform, announced that he was not worthy to sit in the House of Commons." So far as re garded the miners, their numbers are very great, and an interest in their welfare should be increased by the thought that they are constantly exposed to great perils. After entering at great length upon the subject immediately before them, the noble lord concluded by making some impressive remarks upon the general state of things at present. At this moment there is unfortunately, as he says, a state of war between capital and labour. While the men do not think that any evil effects are produced by these unions, the masters are much against them, and political economists entertain the worst opinion of their influence Ilion our national prosperity ; and as it is emphatically put iu this speech, " a greater or more momentous question could not be put to this country than to decide on which side of the argument the truth and the facts lie the heavier." The noble lord, in giving his own view of the matttr, said that it would never do to seek a remedy for this state of things in the re enactment of our combination laws. "No ; political economy forbids a return to penal legislation—the feeling and instinct of our nature revolts against it. I look to reconciliation, and not to penal legisla tion—l look to arbitration." No doubt there is great force in these arguments ; and now-a-days the natural desire of men seems to be to have recourse to this mode of dealing with awkward matters and settling grievances. All this, however, must be borne in mind, and that is the necessity for arbitration to precede strikes and not to follow upon them. We quite agree with Lord ELCIIO when he says that if matters are properly arranged there will not be near so much likelihood of strikes taking place. If things are quitely talked over, reason takes the place of obstinacy, and recourse is not had to ex treme measures. "I am convinced," said he, " that if you could get masters and men to meet quietly together, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred you would have no strikes, but you would have an agreement between them, and good feeling would take the place of war." The system that prevails in France seems to answer very well, where they have the Conseils des Prudhornmes composed of masters and men. These meet to dis cuss the matters which affect capital and labour, and there are two kinds of tribunes to which appeal is made, but it is seen that out of 133,000 cases sub mitted to the council of conciliation as many as 29,000 were settled satisfactorily, and went no further. " Well," exclaims Lord ELcuo, "I want to know what there is in a Frenchman so different from an Englishman that we are not to have the same thing established in this country, more especially when it has been twice recom mended by Committees of the House of Commons." It is quite true, as the noble lord says, that the remedy which we now want is immediate, and co operation if it ever be established can only be very gradually done. Arbitration seems, after all has been taken into consideration, to be the best thing we can do under the circumstances of the case. Lord ELCIIO wishes a commission to be appointed to inquire into the relations of labour and capital in the United Kingdom. Thus we may fully ascertain all that relates to strikes and unions, what there is good in the latter and what there is defective also. The noble lord declared he had such confidence in the good sense of the workmen of the country that if it were plainly put before them that the result of these unions had been otherwise than beneficial, and would be injurious to the future of their children, that they would be the first to come and say, " We must put a stop to this state of things." We hope and believe that the noble lord's remarks are correct, and it would indeed be a happy thing for this country if the hostile unions of capital and labour, now so unfortunately arrayed against each other, became united in a union of interest and feeling, "standing shoulder to shoulder, while they manfully wrestle against the competition with foreign labour, which daily becomes more formidable, and which wrestles with us now for the custom of the world." It is high time that something decisive was done to check this growing evil and put a stop to this state of things between labour and capital, which is sapping the commercial prosperity of the country and militating against the true interests of the community. Lord Evil() deserves great credit for the masterly style in which he has treated the subject, awl the best THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 1867. thanks of masters and men should be his for seek. ing to put before them in its true colours the con. dition of things at present affecting the question a labour. The people of Prussia seem already very much dissatisfied with the state of things, and the popu larity of BISMARCK which had increased so much of late seems again on the wane, if we are to judge of what is said in various quarters. This is not to be wondered at, when we take into consideration the way in which he has carried on affairs of late. He has framed his Federal Constitution in such a manner that it may be looked upon as adverse to the system of Parliamentary Government. It is one thing to make the beat of the great success which he met with in the last campaign, and another to keep up the advantage for any great length of time. We have no doubt that in a short time he will find out his mistake, and regret that he failed to adopt a wiser course. If anything were wanting to show the fallacy of those who think that a new era is dawning for Germany, it is afforded in the desire expressed by the Berlin Government to have the complete control and direction of military matters. The clause which is to grant military supplies in perpettcum is indeed a significant one, and aptly represents the real meaning of the BISMARCK manoeuvring. What the Berlin authorities want is to get all the power into their our hands, totally irrespective of the claims of justice, and then they will set at defiance all the remonstrances of those who persevere to differ from them. Altogether there seems such a confusion of interests and such a variety of plans in formation that undei the best management it would be ex tremely difficult to arrive at a srtisfactory conclu sion. The work which the Prussians have under taken to perform is one of far too much extent and importance to be hurried over lightly and super ficially, still less should it be carried on by those who are actuated by selfish motives. The Atlantic Telegraph, again in working order, brings us brief but most important intelligence. The telegram dated New York, January 23, even ing, tells us that the House of Representatives has passed a bill prohibiting any person who took part in the rebellion from practising at law. The news, two days later, says there is a tendency to panic in the share market, and several failures are reported. Nothing seems to deter the Radicals from pursuing their headlong course, although they must by this time be able to realise the effect which their policy produces upon the commerce of the country. The notion of prohibiting any one who took part in the rebellion from practising at law is preposterously unjust. Perhaps they fear to have the Constitu tion continually pleaded against them by the Southerners themselves towards the negroes. The whites excluded the blacks from courts of law. The Radicals are willing indeed to allow the testimony of the Southern whites, but they virtually condemn them to have their causes pleaded by their antagonists. The feeling between South and North is unfortunately not such that a Southerner would willingly entrust all his interests to Northern hands. Yet, if no person who took any part in the re bellion is to be permitted to practice in the law courts, all the Southerners of standing and education will be silenced, since the Radical deputation in cludes, as we know, every one who subscribed or aided in any manner the Confederate cause, or even consented to its maintenance. The exclusion of Southern members from the national Congress was, one would imagine, intolerant enough ; but this further step of the Radicals shows very clearly that their object is to reduce the South to absolute subjection. These intolerant advocates of Repub. lican doctrines emulate the most unscrupulous of despots in their impatience of free speech and free thought. Conscious of the harshness of their conduct towards the South, they are unwill ing to allow its people the smallest opportu nity of representing their grievances, and every fresh movement seems to increase the ani mosity of the Radicals against the population of the South, and the merchants and stockbrokers of New York may well feel apprehensive of the results when they see such recklessness and folly in the leaders of the Congress. By the mail we shall have fuller details of the state of parties, though, of course, intelligence of an earlier date, but meanwhile the telegraph has told us enough to make us fear that peace and prosperity are still some distance removed from the people of the United States. official character. The Tribunal has decided that M. Dentu has alone the right to publish a guide to the Exhibition, and the appeal of Messrs. Lubigne and Duquesne is dismissed with costs. This deci sion will cause some disappointment in the literary world, as several publishers had made arrangements to publish guides or hand-books to the Exhibition of a more or less comprehensive character at a cheap rate. Lately much interest was excited about the head of Cardinal Richelieu. A day or two ago there was strong competition at Rouen among the amateurs of valuable relics to obtain the cast of the head of a renowned robber and murderer, named Durame, which was put up to auction at that town. Durame was executed at Rouen on the 26th of January, 1708. It appears that some people delighted to honour this brigand, for his portrait is still preserved in the public library of that town, and some poet of the day wrote a verse, which is still to be read under the likeness. There is rather a facetious originality in the register of his death. It is in these terms : " Francois Durame, aged 40 years, workman, born in the commune of Bondeville-les-Rouen died sud denly on the 7th pluvoise, an. 6 (Jan. 26, 1798) in the Place du Vieux, Marches, before mid-day.'' It is not mentioned at what price the fortunate bidder paid for the cast. M. Borella, a Spaniard, the proprietor of two hotels, one at Madrid and the other at Valladolid, has made proposals to the Imperial Commission to supply during the Exhibition 400,000 dinners a day at the price of lf. per head. The dinner is to con sist of soup and three dishes. Some improvements in progress in the Faubourg St. Germain have brought to recollection a re markable building in the Rue Visconti—the ancient Hotel de Ranes, built upon the eite of the Petit Pre-aux-Clercs, where Racine died on the 22d of April, 1699. Adrienne Lecouvre also died there in the year 1730. Two celebrated actors, La Champ mele, and Hippolyte Clarion once inhabited the Hotel de Ranes. These biographical facts are recorded upon a tablet of black marble, which the curious in such matters have an opportunity of inspecting. On Wednesday afternoon there was a tremen dous tempest at Boulogne-sur-bier, and a violent snow storm at sea, which it appears made it impos sible for sailors to distinguish objects even a few yards off. Two fishing boats of Calais, the Eole and the St. Joseph, were dashed about with great violence while endeavouring to enter the port, and several of the crew were drowned. The tempest continued until Thursday. The communication with the English coast was interrupted. " There is many a slip between the cup and the lip," says the adage, and the Civil Tribunal of the Seine has given a decision which not only verifies its truth, but exhibits the remarkable difference which exists between the French and English law as regards breaches of promise of marriage. It seems that on the month of October last, M. C—, a tailor, came to Paris from one of the Eastern departments, in order to be present at the marriage of his daughter. M. C. has arrived at years of discretion, at least he has seen the full accomplishment of fifty six years. While in Paris he was introduced to the sister of his son-in-law, a buxom and capti vating lady of 46, who follows the useful occu pation of a cook. Mr. C. being a widower thought he had not only the right to fall in love with her, which he did, as the saying is, at first sight, but to offer her marriage, which he did also. On his re turn home a tender correspondence ensued. The lady accepted his offer of marriage, and she also accepted some handsome presents which he sent to her. The happy day, which was to make the cook his own, was anxiously expected. Although time seemed to drag very slowly along, the day at length arrived, and the plaintiff and his friends all assembled, as was mutually agreed, at the Maine in bridal costume to fulfil the requisite formalities. Nothing was wanting to complete the tailor's happi ness but the bride. Two hours of dreadful anxiety elapsed, and still she did not come. At length came, not the bride, but, the unkindest cut of all, a message from her, stating that she was not disposed at that Inc:Anent to say the fatal " yes," but that she wanted several days for reflection. Some days after she sent a letter refusing to fulfil her promise of marriage, but offering to send back the presents. Ultimately the action was brought for the breach of the cook's promise, the tailor estimat ing his damages for her loss at 2,500 f. Among the items to make up this amount the plaintiff estimated Court his travelling expenses, th e cost of living at his a hotel, a a r n k d ab th l e e cost of t n h , et to presents.th eeffect that The e gave appre ciating the liberty of marriage —a matter of public order, which involves the right of breaking a con tract of union up to the latest moment," it rejected the demand of the plaintiff, and ordered him to pay the expenses. At the same time the Court held that the right was not so absolute as to preclude an action for damages under some circumstances de fined by article 1,382 of the Code Napoleon, but that such circumstances did not exist in the present case. And so the tailor lost his suit, his bride, and his presents. lie will probably be more careful about a wedding present for the future. I am informed that among the first bills to be presented to the Chamber will be a bill for the abolition of imprisonment for debt, which the Go vernment was desirous to pass last session. To-day the weather has been extraordinary. There was a violent wind and s ome rain, but it was really warm, as warm as some days of summer. Last Sunday the snow was abundant and the cold prostrating. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. (Per Atlantic Cable.) NEW YORK, Jan. 25. The Inman steamer Kangaroo arrived to-day ; all well. NEW YORK, Jan. 23 (Evening). The House of Representatives has passed a bill prohibiting any person who took part in the rebel lion from practising at law. Gold, 1351. Sterling exchange on London, 109. Five-twenty United States Bonds, 1071. Illi nois, 116 ; Erie, 66. Cotton, middling upland, 341 c. The royal mail steamer Cuba arrived out yester day. Jan. 25 (Evening). Gold, 135 k. Sterling exchange on London, 109. Five-twenty United States Bonds, 107 ; Illinois, 116 ; Erie, 66. Cotton, middling upland, 35c. There is a tendency to panic in the share-market, and several failures are reported. BELGIUIII. BRUSSELS, Jan. 28. Royal decrees have been issued prohibiting the import or export of cattle in the town of llassel band, the entry or transportation of cattle or hides, horns, &c., on the Eastern Belgian frontier from Montzen to Athens. ITALY. FLORENCE, Jan. 27 (Evening). The bill for the liquidation of the ecclesiastical property is followed by the convention concluded between the Italian Government and M. M. Langraud Dumoneean. This stipulates that if the bill be approved by Parliament and the majority of the bishops consent to effect the conversion of the property, M. M. Langraud Dumoncean will undertake on behalf of the Government to collect the 600 millions lire, or whatever less sum may b e determined as the quota appertaining to the State from the proceeds of the liquidation. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROII OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Sunday Evening. The Moniteur says that the reports which have been circulated of an attempt on the life of King Victor Emmanuel are formally contradicted by a despatch from Florence. I did not hear of any such report in Paris. The health of the King of Prussia, respecting which some alarming reports have been spread, is in course of amelioration, and there is every reason to believe that the indisposition under which King William has been suffering will very shortly be terminated. The Madrid Gazette publishes a decree respecting the reorganisation of the army, which, in its effec tive state, is to be composed of 200,000 men. The army is to be divided into three classes, of which the contingent is fixed by the Chambers, viz. The permanent army. 2. The active reserve. 3. The sedentary reserve, which is to be placed under arms by a special law when occasion may require. The provincial militia is abolished. The following is from a letter dated Rome, Jan. atl The st I r lo e l t y er l: s a , t o h n e r t h w e i give ot h Feabruarylemn, e a br s u o a l e ry m , n t b o e t n h e - de i 7 c t : n " Venerable Benoit d'Urban, of the order of the Fran ciscans. About the same period a Consistory will be held, at which Pius the Ninth, wishing to give the greatest possible éclat to the fetes of the month of June, intends to appoint several cardinals. In consequence of the death of Cardinal Villecourt, there is at present a vacany for 15 cardinals. There now only remains in the Holy College fifteen of the cardinals promoted to the purple by Gregory XVI. Since the accession of Pius IX. to the Holy See seven members of that body have died. The Minister of Public Works, being very desirous that the Church shall be as worthily represented at the Universal Exhibition as in 1855, has placed the corvette l'lmmacul6e Conception at the disposal of artists and manufacturers, and a committee has been ap pointed to select the articles to be sent to it. They will be despatched on the Ist of February. Pius the Ninth will exhibit among other interesting objects a work appropriate to Rome, and of unique character—a model in wood of the natural dimen sions of a Roman catacomb before it was devastated. The whole of the interior will be beautifully imitated as regards light, colour, and the various adjuncts. The inscriptions of the second century will bo copied, and the illusion will be perfect and magnificent. The vexed question respecting the Duchies of Schleswig-Holstein is settled, at least for the moment. The patent of the incorporation of those Duchies with the Prussian Monarchy has been officially published. The final decision has been given by the Civil Tribunal of the Seine upon the appeal involving the important question, whether the purchase of the right to publish an official guide to the Universal Exhibition excludes the publication of any guide whatever by anybody else. M. Dentu, who paid a large sum for the privilege of publishing the official guide, commenced proceedings against Messrs. Lubigne and Duquesne, who had prepared a guide which, however, was not auuotinced as having any Calls to the Bar. GitAY's-INN.—At a pension holden on Saturday Mr. Edwyn Jones, of 3, Elm-court, Temple, associate of King's College, London; Lee, prizeman, 18G5, holder cf the Co.a mon Law Exhibition, 1865, and holder of the Exhibition awarded at the general examination, May, 1866, was called to the degree of barrister-at-law. INNER TEMPLE.—Theunder-mentioned gentlemen were on Saturday called to the bar by the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple :—Messrs. Charles Henry Anderson, (holder of an Exhibition awarded in Michaelmas Term, 1816, and senior July exhibitioner, 1865); Isaac Bond, M.A., Dublin ; Jospeh Henry Idle, 8.A., Oxford ; John Alfred Thompson, M.A., Oxford Arthur Temple Felix Clay, 8.A., C am b r id ge ; Thomas Herbert Maddy, B.A. Cambridge; Sidney Godolphin Alexander Shippard, M.A., 8.C.L., Oxford ; Francis Walter Shepherd, 8,A., Oxford ; Edmund Archibald Stuart, M.A., Oxford; Francis Tyssen Amhurst, 8.A., O x f or d ; A rthur John Williams; Charles Alfred Cockson, 8.A., O xford ; Robert Harvey Blake Humfrey, Cambrid ge ; Nugent Robert Holdsworth Carew Hunt, 8.A., Dublin ; Fi n l ay K n ight ; John Leonard Bolden, 8.A., Cambridge; and Edward French Buttemer Huston. MIDDLE TEMPLE, Jan. 26.—Tho undermentioned gentle men were this day called to the degree of the Utter Bar by the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple : Edward Sacheverell Chandos-Pole, Esq. • Thomas Beresford Deal try, of St. John's College, Charles John O'Malley, 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin, Esq ; Esq. ; Edward Maunde Thompson, Esq. ' • William English Harrison, Esq. ; Arth ur J ones, 8.A., Trinity College, Cambridge, Esq. ; B en j am i n F rancis Williams, 8.A., St. J o h n ' s Col lege, Cambridge, Else] : ; Willi am H ou ghton, 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin, Esq. ; A rthur Phillips, 8.A., Fellow of St. Catherin e ' s C o ll ege, Cambridge, E gg' ; Mi c h e l Rigo bert Pericles B eaugeard, Esq. : Jean A rman d H ermans, Esq. ; and George Edwin Borradaile, Esq. LINCOLN'S -INN, Jan. 26.—The u ndermentioned gentle men were this day called to the degree of barrister-at-law by the Hon. S oc i e t y of Lincoln's-inn :—v i z., W m . L am b ert Newman, E sq ., M.A., Oxford ; William Henry Skinner, Esq.; Sidney B r y an t M 'Whinnie, Esq., 8.A., Cambridge ; Edmund Widdringt on B yrne, E N . ; William Churchill, B.A.,Esq., Camb r id ge; Henry Blunt H owar d, Esq., 8.A., Cambrid ge ; Ch ar l es John Tahourdin, E sq., 8 . A ., O x f or d ; George Rogers, Esq. ; H enry St ran ge Hume, Esq., 'B.A., Oxford ; Fr e d er i c k A lbert Lewin, Esq., 8.A., C am bridge ; Francis Ott er , E sq., M.A., Oxford; John Gregory, Esq., Edward M.A., Oxfo r d ; Willi am Phi son Bea l e, E sl' ; Hume, Esq., 8.A., Oxford; John Donaldson Reeves, Esq., M.A., Cambridge; and Herbert Webb Gillman, Esq., 8.A., Dublin. PARDON FOR AN ADULLAMITE.—Mr. E. iieneage, M.P., has mot his constituents at Lincoln, and has vindi cated his conduct with reference to the Reform Bill of last year. The following resolution was adopted :—" That this meeting, having heard the explanation given by Mr. E. lleneage of his vote in the reform debate of last session in the House of Commons, while regretting the vote, accepts the explanation, and continues its confidence in him as one of the representatives of the Liberal electors of this city ; and tendore to him its thanks for his attendance hero and his whims thi PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Jan. 28. General Manteuffel, who, on account of weak health, has repeatedly requested the King to relieve him of the chief command of the 9th Army Corps, has obtained his Majesty's permission to retire from that position. General Manteuffel will only retain his post as General Aide-de-Camp to the King, and, in order to enable him to recruit his health, is relieved from all other functions for a period of one year. Lieut.-General Mannstein is designated as his successor in the command of the 9th Army Corps, but has not yet been definitively appointed. FRANCE. BOURSE, Jan. 26, Two o'clock.—Tho Bourse exhibits greater firmness, with slightly higher quotations. Three per Cent. Rentes have gained Tic.--at 68f. 87ic., and Italian Fives sc.—at 51f. 35c. Credit Mobilier shares are at 498 f. 75c., an advance of 2f. 50c., and Credit Fonder, 1,447 f. 50c., or Bf. 75c. higher. Comptoir d'Escompte have advanced 2f. 50c.—to 777 f. 500. Mexican Loans are higher than at yesterday's close, 6 per cents. of 50c.—at 22f., and Bonds of lf. 25c.—at 148 f. 7 5c. Railways are also quoted with an improve ment of from lf. 25c. to 2f. 50c. English Consols continue their upward movement ; a rise of i is in dicated by the telegraph. Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows : ti per Cents 9B 75 i Bank Shares 3380 Do. end month ltalian Loan 54 36 3 per Cents. 6B 00 Do. end month 54 40 Do. end month 6B 85 Mexican Loan 22 Credit Mobilier ... 501 25 Do. Bonds l4B 75 Do. end month ... 500 Spanish Threes Credit Foncier _ Home Debt Do. end month 1415 Deferred 'AIM RAIL' For Account. Orleans Northern ll7B 75 Lyons and Mediterranean 907 50 Southern SG3 75 Western — Eastern Sardinian 95 Austrian Lombard 3BB 75 North of Spain ll6 25 Saragossa l3i Ditto to Barcelona — Roman.. BB 75 LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. (This Day.) Market opens with a strong demand. prbably 12,000 bales or more. THE LATE CAPTAIN MUSH. Sales However the autocratic management of railways by mi litary men may be now regarded, it is but a very few years since Captain Mark Huish was the leading railway manager in the United Kingdom, and this is perhaps equi valent to saying the leading railway manager in the world. Descended from an old Leicestershire family, he entered the East India Company's service at an early age, and ob tained rapid promotion. Returning shortly after the com mencement of the railway period, he became secretary and general manager of the Glasgow and Greenock line, shortly after its opening in 1839 or 1810. Here his ac tivity and his powers of rapid organisation and discipline soon attracted attention, and that especially of the late Mr. Joseph Locke. When the Liverpool and Manchester and Grand Junction lines were amalgamated he was offered and accepted the post of general manager, and, in conjunc tion with his colleague, Mr. Henry Booth, he promoted the interests of that undertaking with such zeal that it at one time appeared likely to become the most powerful of its kind in the kingdom. During the memorable gauge contest of 1845 46, in which he took an active part, the Grand Junction sought an independent line to London, an attempt which led to its amalgamation, in 1816, with the London and Birmingham Railway. The fusion of these great companies into one vast undertaking—the London and North Western —was in a measure due to the personal influence of Capt. Huish, and he became not only the gene ral manager of the whole line, but the first public autho rity in railway management. His rule was most arbitraiy, but it was based upon sound commercial principles as well as upon an admirable system of centralisation. He en forced the utmost responsibility everywhere, and succeeded by this and other means in securing a regularity, safety, and cele - .:ty in railway travelling, and a command over sudden and overwhelming irruptions of traffic, which had never been known before. The management of the enor mous Exhibition traffic of 1851 is a sufficient instance in point. A few' weeks after his election in April, 1852, as an Associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers, he presented to that body an important and suggestive paper upon railway accidents, in which the causes of 1,000 cases of engine failures and defects in a lengthened period in the stock of 587 engines then belonging to his own lino were m'nutely classified. It has been said that in this paper he invented the now well-known team "rolling stock." In September, 1858, Captain Huish resigned his post, in con sequence, as was well known, of the course taken by the leading representatives of the competing lines with which the London and North-Western Board had to carry out traffic arrangements. His resignation, which, under the circumstances, was but an impulse of high honour and lofty spit, was received not merely with regret, but with an astonishmentalmost amounting to dismay. After its final acceptance, Capt. Huish was presented with an address and a handsome testimonial from upwards of 5,000 of the men, "from the humblest workman on the line to the leading officers of the service." His reply to this, the third address and testimonial of the kind he had received dieing his 18 years' connexion with the undertaking-, was in itself a valu able page from a groat railway experience, as well as an expression of deep and genuine English feeling. Captain Huish soon afterwards became deputy-chairman of the Electric Telegraph Company, and he promoted the for mation' of the Clifton Suspension Bridge Company. He also took a warm interest in the introduction of the pneu matic system of railways, which gives so much promise in the future, and he was chiefly instrumental in introducing railways into the Isle of Wight, his own chosen retreat being at Combo Wood, Bonchurch, where his last hours were passed.—Engineer. A NOVEL WAGER.—On Tuesday, the 17th of January, 1826, Mr. Henry Hunt, jun., a son of the cola brated Henry Hunt, of political notoriety, drove his blacking caravan and four horses, for a bet of 100 guineas, over the Serpentine and back without the slightest difficulty. Mr. Bright, M.P., and his Workpeople. The Manchester papers of Saturday publish full reports of the proceedings of Mr. Bright's work people on Friday at Rochdale ; and the accounts enable us to supplement the report given in our last impression with some further details. The object of the address, which we subjoin, was to refute the charges brought against Mr. Bright as an employer of labour, by Mr. Pope Hennessy, Mr. Garth, M.P., and other members of the Conservative party. The firm of Messrs. Bright Brothers, in which Mr. John Bright is principal partner, is engaged in the manu facture of cotton and carpets, and employs about 1,200 hands of both sexes. With hardly an excep tion the whole of these partook of tea on Friday evening in the Public-hall, and after tea a meeting for the presentation of the address was held. The chair was occupied by Mr. James Tweedale, one of the oldest workmen in the Messrs. Bright's employ ment. Mr. Bright occupied a scat on the chairman's right, whilst Mrs. Bright, Mr. Thomas Bright, Mr. T. B. Potter, M.P., and Mr. GoHwin Smith occu pied places in one of the galleries. Invitations had been sent to Mr. Garth, Mr. Cave, and one or two other gentlemen who have made themselves conspi cuous by their attacks upon Mr. Bright, but none of these invitations were accepted. " Field House Milli, Rochdale, Jan. 25, 18G7. "To John Bright, Esq., M.P. " Honoured Sir,—We, the workpeople employed by the firm of which you are the head, desire to con vey our entire sympathy with, and our sincere re spect for you, under the malignant slanders which have been urged against you as our employer. We feel impelled by a sense of duty to take this oppor tunity of declaring to you that all the reports which have been circulated against you throughout the country are entirely false. They have been made and written by parties who, to make political capi tal, have attacked, in an unscrupulous and base manner, your private character. We are well aware that the consciousness of those attacks being untrue will be sufficient to uphold you in the dig nity to which you have attained. Your conduct, as our employer, has been such as to meet our entire approval. You have always endeavoured to im prove our moral, social, and intellectual well-being. As a public character, your best endeavours have been to raise the great wealth-producing class to the full right of citizenship ; and we take this opportunity of saying that your public acts have invariably met with our approbation ; and we pray that your valuable life, as an employer and a states man, may long be spared to your family ' and coun try, and at last you may meet with the great and just, and be welcomed as a good and faithful ser vant. " Signed on behalf of the hands in your employ, "JAMES TWEEDALE, Holler Coverer, Chairman. "JOHN BRIEULEY, Warper, Secretary. " THOMAS FIELDING, Mechanic, Treasurer. "MARK KERSHAW, Carpet Weaver, Chairman. "JAMES MALONEY, Pieco Looker, Secretary. " THOMAS JACKMAN, Carpet Printer, Treasurer." Mr. J. SHAW, carpet weaver, in moving that the address should be presented to Mr. Bright, said the meeting had been called for the purpose of giving a denial to the slanderous attacks that had been lately made on their employers. The people of Rochdale did not require to be told that Mr. Bright's private life contained in itself a complete answer to the charges that had been circulated. (hlear, he..r, and cheers.) Mr. GEORGE INonam, overlooker, in seconding the motion, said the workpeople of Mr. Bright had met to express sympathy with their universally beloved master. He felt that although he had the eloquence of a Burke, or the pen of an historian, he could never do justice to the character of that great and good man. (Applause.) It had been said that Mr. Bright possessed a narrow and selfish mind but they could give that a complete contradiction. He was a kind and generous master, and if his name did not flourish at the time of the cotton famine, with thousands of pounds attached to it, as my Lord Derby's did, that was not to say that his purse was never opened. Mr. Bright's private purse was always at the disposal of the poor. (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) And it was not by the people of Roch dale alone that Mr. Bright was beloved. Ile well remembered at the great demonstration at Man chester, when his noble master stepped on the plat form and received an ovation of the most remark able description, the band striking up "Should auld acquaintance be forgot," the tears welled in his (Mr. Ingham's) eyes, and his heart bounded when he considered that the man to whom so much honour was being done was his master, (Cheers.) The meaning of the tune was well known. The people of Ma nc h es t er k new that they made a" mistake in rejecting Mr. Bright as their member—(hear, hear, and loud cheers)—and they were anxious to make all the amends in their power. (Hear, hear) Mr. Y. WHITTAKER, carpet weaver, supported the resolution. It had been stated that a notice had once been posted in the Messrs. Bright's mills " No Irish need apply." To that he was able to give a flat denial. (Cheers.) Again it was said that Mr. Bright was disliked by his workpeople, and that he had been hooted from his mills. He could only is that when Mr. Bright en t ere d hi s pre mises saya came amongst those whom he employed, the most kindly feeling existed between them, and that in no place that he was aware of was so tho rough a confidence established between employer and employed. (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) He earnestly hoped that Mr. Bright's life might be long spared, and that when he had finished his course here below he might hear the still small voice saying, 46Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." The motion was also supported by Mr. B. Old ham and Mr. Mark Kershaw, and was carried amidst loud and continued cheering. The CHAIRMAN, in presenting the address, said he did so with feelings which he could not express. Ever since he was a little boy, in 1822 or 1823, he had worked for Mr. Bright, and he was still working for him. He (the Chairman) had suffered much sickness and affliction ; he had had to use crutches for years, and he had never been without a meal's meat. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Bright had been like a father to him, a n d if every one whom Mr. Bright had treated in the same manner was to come before the meeting, they would have no end of speeches. (Applause.) T urn i ng to M r . B r i g ht, th e Chair man said—lt is with the greatest respect for you and your brothers that I give you this address. LISTON IN TRAGEDY.--LiStoll was, in early man hood (says Mr. Timbs, in his " English Eccen trics"), in the counting-house of a merchant in Birchin-lane, when, upon a summer's excursion into Norfolk in 1801, the accidental sight of pretty Sally Parker, as she was then called (an actress in the Norwich company), diverted his inclinations at once from commerce, and he became stage struck. Happily for the lovers of mirth was it that he took this turn. Shortly after he made his dibut on the Norwich boards in his 22d year. Having a natural bent for tragedy, he choose the part of Pyrrhus, in " The Distressed Mother," to Sally Parker's Hermione. We find him afterwards as George Barnwell, Altamont, Clermont, ecc. ; but as if na ture had destined him to the sock, an unavoidable infirmity absolutely incapacitated him for tragedy. LT his obstacle is explained as arising from illusions which haunted him in consequence of the solitary reveries to which he was addicted in his early youth. Their effect upon him is thus described.] In the midst of some most pathetic passages--the parting of Jaffier with his dying friend, for instance—he would suddenly be sraprised with a fit of violent horse-laughter. While the spectators were all sobbing before him with emotion, suddenY.y ono of those grotesque faces would peep out upon him, and he could not resist the impulse. A timely excuse once or twice served his purpose, but no audience could be ex pected to bear repeatedly this violation o 2 the continuity of feeling. He describes them (the illusions) as so many demons haunting him and paralysing every effort. It is said that he could not recite the famous soliloquy in Hamlet," oven in private, without immoderate fits of laughter. Ho waver, what ho had not force of reason suffi cient to overcome, ho had gcod sense enough to turn into emolument, and determined to make a. commodity of dis temper. He prudently exchanged the buskin for the sock, and the illusions instantly ceased, or if they occurred for a short season, by this very co-operation added a zest to his comic vein ; some of his most catchin g faces being (each expressed it) little more than transcripts and copies of those extraordinary phantasmata. GAME AND THE STORM IN PERTHSHIRE.—Deer scattered considerably during tho recent storm, and grouse were beginning to suffer since the heavy falls of snow, but fortunately the frost after the snow was not so intense as before it, so that the birds were onahi,ed to get at food to some extent. It is said that they fed tc an unusual extent last autumn on grain, and some keepo •s aro afraid that in consequence of this they will not come through the winter SO well as they wixtla vtlacrwitic have cis one. ~.,... fq - 14i (Ft w` 1;91 11.* 1 1 4 , r t HER MAJESTY, &c• OSBORNE, Jan. 26. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, accom panied by Princess Christian and the Duchess d'Auniale. Her Majesty and Princess Beatrice walked and rode on ponies this morning. Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Prince Henry of Prussia walked in the grounds. Prince Arthur drove out, .attended by Major Elphinstone. The Duke and DucheEs d'Aumale, attended by Aidlle. Clinchamp, left Osborne to-day for Twicken ham. Their Royal Highnesses crossed over to South ampton in the Royal yacht Alberta. General Peel had the honour of dining with the Queen and Royal family yesterday. He left for London this morning. Sunday. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian, drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by the Dowager Duchess of Athole. Tho other members of the royal family walked in the grounds. Her Majesty and their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Christian, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, and Princess Beatrice attended Divine service this morning at Whippingham Church. The Rev. George Prothero officiated. Mr. R. B. Morier arrived at Osborne yesterday, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and royal family. THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES. SIX-MILE BOTTOM, Jan. 25. The sport afforded his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales yesterday by General Hall, over the Larke's Hall part of the estate, was of a very ex cellent description. Upwards of 400 head of par tridges, besides some little ground game, fell to the seven guns. This morning the Prince of Wales, with General Hall, the Earl of Leicester, the Earl of Dunmore, Lord Ifuntingfield, Captain Bateson, and Major G. H. Grey, went out partridge driving on the Westley side of the estate, and enjoyed some first rate sport. The visit here was terminated this evening, the Prince of Wales, attended by Major Grey, leaving Six-Mile Bottom by a special train at about 20 minutes to six o'clock, which, after stopping a few minutes at Cambridge and King's Lynn for the purpose of changing engines, reached Wolferton at 20 minutes past seven. SANDRINGIIAM, Jan. 26. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by General Knollys, Major Teesdale, Major Grey, and the Marchioness of Car marthen, attended Divine service at Sandringham Church this morning. The Rev. W. Lake OnslOvv, rector and private chaplain, officiated and preached. The Prince and Princess of Wales, with Prince Albert Victor and Prince George and suite, Will 1-ave Sandringham House to-morrow and return to London by special train, having terminated the winter visit to Norfolk after a stay of more than three months. It is expected their royal highnesses will revisit Sandringham about the middle of April for the Easter holidays. THE COURT.—it is understood that the return of her Majesty and tho Court to Windsor Castlo will be the beginning of a somewhat gayer season than usual.— Wind sor and Eton News. DEATH OF TILE COUNTESS OF MAYO.—We have to record the death of the Countess of Mayo, which occurred on Saturday last, at Edgohill, Sydenham. lier ladyship was the only daughter of the Hon. John Jocelyn, son of Robert, first Earl of Roden, by Margaret, daughter' of the late Right Hon. Richard Fitzgerald, of Mou nt Offaloy, county Kildare. Her ladyship, who was born J lll 7 31, 1801, married Aug 3, 1820, the Earl of Mayo, by wit"' she leaves ioouo —the Right:Hon. Lord Naas, M.P. Secre tary for Ireland ; and six other sons, and a daughter, Lady Margaret Bourke. DEATH OF THE COUNTESS (DOWAGER) OF JERSEY. —We have to announce the sudden - death of Sarab, the Countess Dowager of Jersey, which occurred on Satur day night at her ladyship's town residence in Berkeley square. We are informed that after a cheerful dinner, and to every appearance in excellent health, the countess, shortly after ten o'clock, went to her dressing room. In a few minutes the household were alarmed by a violent ring' ing of her bell, and, on an attendant going into the apart ment, the countess said she feared she had broken a blood vessel. Medical aid was isimediately obtained, but to no purpose, for her ladyship expired shortly before 11 o'clock. DEATH OF SIR JOHN V. SHELLEY, BART.--We have to announce the death of .Sir John Villiers Shelley} Bart., who died at an early hour on Saturday morning a t Maresfield Park, the family seat in Sussex. The deceased baronet wits the eldest son of Sir John, sixth baronet, by Frances, only daughter and heiress of Mr. Thomas Wino''' . ley, of Brockholes, Lancaster. Ho wall born March 18 7 1808, and married Aug. 13, 1832, Louisa Elizabeth An n ' only child of the Rev. S. Johnes Knight, of Henley 1 144 county Salop, rector of Welwyn, Harts, and vicar of Al l " hallows, Barking, by whom he leaves issue an only daughter. At the general election in 1841 he was an un successful candidate for the Eastern Division of Susse s. In July, 1852, he was elected to the House of Comment' for the city of Westminster, and sat for that city uP to the dissolution in 1865. The late Sir John, v;b ° was educated at the Charter House, was the a uthor of some political pamphlets. He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father ix March, 1852. Shirley, in his "Noblemen and Gentlemen a England," makes mention of this family as follows:—" Al though there is no doubt of the antiquity of the House (/' Shelley, the accounts of the earlier descents of the family are very scanty. Originally of the county of Huntingdo n the Shelleys are said .to have removed into this coun t y (Sussex) at a very early period. But the earliest mention, we have in history of any of this family is of John an d , Thomas Shelley, who, followin g th e f or t unes o f Ri c hert' 11, were attainted and beheaded in the first year of Howl IV. The remaining brother, Sir William Shelley, not b e; ing connected with the followers of Richard 11. retained his possessions, and was the ancestor of this family, WJI in the reign of Henry VI. , b y a match w i th the he i re ss ° Michelgrove of Michelgrove, in Clapham, was seated a t that place, which continued the residence of the Shelleys until the year 1800, when it was sold, and Maresfiell b e c i came the family seat." The patent of baronetcy wasdat e May, 1611, and form e d th e l as t o f th e 20 fi rs t crea t e d, an d of which five still exist, not merged in peerages. Sir Job ° lays claim to the ancient barony of Sudeley (in abeyan ce since 1336) as representative of Alice Belknap, one of t he co-heirs. The late Sir John was lieutenant-colonel of the 46th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers. By default of male WO he is succeeded in- the baronetcy by his brother, the Frederick Shelley, rector of Beer Ferris, Devon, born la, 1809, and married in 1845 t o Ch ar l o tt e M ar i e , daughter o' the late Rev. H. Hippis'ey, of Lamborne ?lace, Berks. REPRESENTATION OF STROUD.—STROUD, Satur day.—This scattered borough is quite in a ferment of elf tion excitement consequent on the position taken up P . , ) , some of the Liberal party in opposition to Mr. Ilorsroa The new candidate, Mr. Wint er b o tham, has issued a Yor e lengthy manifesto, offering himself as a candidate "in th e prospect of an early dissolution of Parliament," and to challenge has been answered by Mr. Horaman's friends s., viting that gentleman to a public dinner, which is to co d ,„ off before the meeting of Pa r li amen t. M r . Wi n terbotbn in his address, declares himself "a warm and unbesitati; adherent of Liberal principles and the Liberal party.' be enters at length into the question of reform, and saY s be . should have supported the •bill o f l as t sess i on, an d he ty lieves "there is hardly a section of the Liberal P r o honestly in favour of reform who could not a ccept 3 0 franchise as a present settlement of the question." 11° 00 3 not prepared for either the ballot, or universal or inen b pe suffrage, but is favourable to Mr. Locke county franchise. Mr. Scropo has issued a denial ot intention to vacate his seat for the borough. "tee to DR. LIVINGSTONE.—Mr. Horace Waller writes 0 e a contemporary as follows Perhaps the foll ov V, extract from a letter I have just received from fr . pit t at Zanzibar, may interest those who feel anxious ae Dr. Livingstone. It is dated December 1. ll° 1335 0ra eclf 'No news of Livingstone since th e Sepoys -retur 13, A unless a report that ho had interfered with an u ich slave caravan can be taken as suc h. Th e letters 11 ; 00 must have accompanied the S e p o y s h a ve no t do delivered as yet, so that this mail leaves without anil finite news regarding his expedition.' Some re ru ours to : a crept into the papers of late speaking of misfortunes li s come to Dr. Livingstone. As one who, with otberlv,suid East Africa, has been killed over and over again, I a ll urge the doctor's friends and well-wishers to di e belie o n o : • side-wind tales. The interested and fertile ireagn i es sts s an Arab, or the lying capacity of a Portuguese half' s s under tropical influence, would make the fortune °L a to sation novelist. On one occasion I have had to minute details of the doctor's death whilst waiting f or jo on the Shire. We receive the saddest accounts of the L crow of the fillAY9 trade at Zanzibar." ab dei 45 act La tat ll] I I I E 0 .11 Col 0 11 bat I , at Z Z-N. d e be, La tip