The Sun. — London, England, 1855-12-10 00:00:00

THE THIRD AND FOURTH VOLUMES OF vi R. MACAULAY'S HISTORY o f I •it, ENGLAND, price 365., will be published on Monday, the lith Inst. Lemlon : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longlrnallg. IVADAME JENNY GOLDSCIIIVIIDT-LIND -1- —Mr. MITCHELL has the honour to announce that Mr. and Mme. GOLDSCHMIDT have arrived in this country with the Intention of giving a Series of CONCERTS AND ORATORIOS ; and it is respectfully announced that o n Monday Evening, Dec. 10, Haydn's Oratorio of THE CREATION will be given at EXETER HALL; and on Monday E ven ing, Dec. 17, Mendelssohn's Oratorio of ELIJAH • in both of which Madame JENNY GOLDSCIIMIDT-LIND will sing the principal Soprano parts (her first appearance befere the public since 1449 )• Conductor, M. Benedict. Prices of admission : —Stalls (Numbered and Reserved), One Guinea; unreserved seats (Body of the Hall) and West Gallery Ten Shillings and Si x p e nce ; Area (wider the West Gallery), Seven Shillings. All applications in reference to Mr. and Madame Goldschmidt's intended Concerts, either in London or the Provinces, to be addressed to Mr. Mitchell, Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street, London. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS Mo ROYAL. ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Last Night but Five. TfIE BEETHOVEN FESTIVAL—THIS EVENING. The Sebastopol Quadrille.—Madarke Gassier. M. Jullien has the honour to announce that the Beethoven Festival will take place This Evening (Monday, Dec. 10), on which occasion the whole of th• first part of the Concert will consist exclusively of the following works of Beethoven :—Overture, Fidelio (first time) ; Concerto in C maior, for pianoforte, by Mons. A. Billet; the Scherzo Presto from the Symphony in A major ; Gr?nd Concerto, for Violin, performed by M. Sainten ; and the Symphony in C minor (the com plete work) ; concluding with the celebrated Triumphal March (first and only time this season). The second part will be Miscellaneous, and Include the New Grand Quadrille, The Fall of Sebastopol, assisted by the Military Band ; Ah non Guinge, sung by Madame Gassier; The Cossack Polka; Solo, Clarionet, by Mr. Lazarus ; and Galop, Vice l'Empereur. Commence at B. Promenade and boxes, ls. ; dress circle, 2s. Ocl. ; private boxes, 125., 1/.15., and 1/. 1 la . 6d. MADAME GASSIER'S BENEFIT. To-morrow (Tuesday) Dec. 11, the Concert will be for the Benefit of Madame Gassier, on which occasion amo attractive programme will be performed. M. Jullien's Grand Annual Rai Masque will take place on Mon day, Dec. next, 17, 1855. QMITH'S GRAND BAL MASQUE at DRURY LANE, for the MILLION. Reduced prices, but increased amusement.—Promenade, 73 64 ; private boxes, for two persons, 103. 6d. ; for four, one guinea ; tress circle, 2s. 6d. ; boxes and galleries, Is. Mr. E. T. Smith, Lessee, respectfully informs the Yobility, Gen try, and Public, that a GRAND HAL MASQUE will take place at the above Theatre on WEDNESDAY, December 12, on a scale of mag nitude and expense never before attempted. A superb salon de lanes, 400 feet in length, embellished and decorated with illuminated nowers, variegated lamps, and novel devices. Enlarged orchestra, well-appointed masters of the ceremonies, all the new dances, music, &c. Tickets, 7s. 6d. each, to be obtained at the principal music sellers and librarians, and at the theatre. Several thousand varie tted lamps, by Duffel The whole of the novel gas fittings under the superintendence of %fr. Jones, of Bow-street, assisted by Mr. Palmer. The decorations by Dickwynken, assisted by Mr. Need ham. The Bowers and scenery arranged by Mr. Tucker. The re freshments by Messrs. Scott and Watling, of Piccadilly and Pimlico. Masters of the Ceremonies under the direction of Mr. Jarvis. '1 he police under Superintendant lTancock. The Box-office under the superintendence of Mr. Chatterton. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY.LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, 7. 11l be performed KATHERINE AND PETRUCHIO. Kathe• rine, Miss Olyn ; Petrnchio, Mr. Barry Suldvan. After which, T kIKE Tll VT GAL AWAY, in which Mr. Chits, Mathews will appear. Followed by PATTER YERSIL3 CLAT TEE. Captain Patter, Mr. C. Mathews. To conch le with a Ballet Divert'ssement. TEIFATRE ROYAL, II \YMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, Will he performed THE BUSY BODY. Characters by Messr3. Hoer!, Chippanda e, Rogers, W. Darren, and Buckston, ; Misses Riinolds and E. Chaplin. After which, the Apanish Dane_u*s. by TILE LITTLE TREASURE. After which, a BALLET, by the Spanish Dancers. To conclu le pith A DAUHIITER TO MARRY. P3INCE4 , r‘3 TER: iTRK, OXFOR 0-ST REZT. MAT.' the Maingernent of Mr..Cztv.Lri Ease. TIM EVENIgG Will be performed HOT STOUT YOU'RE GETTING. After which, KING HENRY TIIE 11. Queen Kathy rine, Mrs. 1;. Kean ; C,ardirtal Wolsey, Mrs. C. Kean. To conclude with A GAME OF ROMP. 3. TIIEATRE ROYAL ADIMFU'. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webstzr.—Dil ectres3, .111(lame Celeste. THIS EVENING, IVi:1 be performed MARIE DUCANGE ; or, The Jersey Girl. Followed by TETE CA gP AT CHOR GAM. 'followed by V ALENTINE AND ORSON. R)YAL OLY:IP:e THEITRE. Tail EV S'.7r !rf/ Will be performed S rum WATERA DEEP. Irollowel by REWARD, To conclade with CATC.IIIN(: A :if ROYAL LYCEUA TIIEA.TrtE. Leilel, Mr. J. 11. Inier3on,l4, Norf , ll l i-street, Strand. LAS r FEW DAYS. Increase,l kttractions, anal success In ulna' ratio AND EVERY EVKNISCI, at Eight o'Clock, Will 'ae presented, with entirely New ant Ntagnitleent Appoint ments, M VAC and NIVATERY, in twelve :seta, arra , tlei In two parts, by Professor Anderson. After which. the startling illustrations of Spirit-ftspping. 1,1,1 , - AN-aOtTli WWI VIE sPIRtrA, being the most surprising an 1 nterasting series of experiments ever given within the wails of any theatre. Revival, in an Im 'roved fbrm, of the astoandinz novelty i.vhi.:ll tartled London 10 years ago, the GREAT GUN TRICK! Prices of admisslon:—Private lhxes, 11. 111. 6.1. and U. 11. ; Orchestra Stalls, 45.; Dress Boxes, 35.; Upper Boni, 24.; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d. No Half-price. Box-oftlee open from I 1 to 5 daily. Grand Morning Performance on Saturday Next at Two o'Clock. Docrs open at Half-past One. ViTLEY'S ftOY-V, AMPIICTIIKATRE- Lessee am! Manager, Mr. Win. Cooke. Immense sueeess of rookweod ! This spirited and exciting Hippodrome (wiot Tarpln's Ride to York) embraces the principal events of A inswor',h's Rockwood. TiIlS EVENING, TCRPIN'S RIDE to YORK ; or, the Heir of Rockwood. Hair breadth escapes of Tu-oin. Ter-:tic leap over a Rye-barrel gate by the mare flack " Bess," trained by Mr. William Cooke. L•st Week of Mlle. Clementine Soullier in the SCENES of the CIRCLE. Mr. J. IL Cooke's FLIGHT of the BRIDGE, &c To conclude with a number of Ames;wr Entertainnvnts. Gigantic preparations are makin; for the Graud Christmas Panto mime, written by Mr. Nelms Lee. •5..0 . r1ee ori , m from Eleven till Four. titage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, R-, •N, Cooke. an. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tluci DAT—Morn. 10 tnin. aft. 2 —Ev ,, ning 30 min. aft. 2 To-51oRnovi—Morn. 40 min.aft. 2 —Evening 11 min. aft. 3 THE WEITRER—SuN OFFICE, Pee. 9. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 41 highest since noon yesterday. 33 - ow,st this morning and during the night. 36 Aids day at noon. BAROMETER, 30.08. 'Wm., N. N.E. to N.E.—Fresh, with bitter frosty weather. There has been a fall of snow yesterday. DECEMBER 10. 37,--illelest sine() noon yesterday. 37 , st this morning and during the night. 39 -th!s day at noon. _ _ _ . 3.A..AOMETER, 30.13. r. N.N.F.—Light, with dull, cold, frosty weather, with slight snow. q t 'l I N. ) t, 1 ,u; ( -- `'.rpz...- - - • LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1855. Mr. COBDEN says that the War is not popular. Let the difference of the reception accorded by our honest yeomen, on Wednesday to Sir ROBERT PEEL and on Thursday to Lord HARRY VANE, be taken upon this point as in some degree clearly illustrative. Lord HARRY was for a pacific com promise, and was listened to accordingly with extraordinary impatience ! Sir ROBERT was for an energetic prosecution of the contest, and was consequently cheered, as the phrase is, to the very echo ! "Yet the auditors upon both occasions were representatives of precisely the identical class from whose pockets are wrung the essential sinews of war, the absolutely requisite thews of the great struggle. Nothing indeed can be more obvious, politically speaking, nowadays, than the resolute unanimity with which th e people of this country are prepared, in any and every way imaginable, a t a ny and every sacrifice, to strengthen the hands of their Government, with a view to the carrying out more determinately the present gigantic enterprise undertaken against Russia by the Allies in the universal interests of liberty and the common cause of civilisation. Whatever the peace-mongering fac-. tion m a y say to t h e contrary, it is so. The vast majority o f i ntell i gent Engl i shmen l oo k with re pugnance at th e mere suggest i on o f an y precTi tate pacification. They are willing) they avow themselves to be ready, they prove themselves to be really prepared to continue this War with Russia until adequate terms shall at length have been e xtorted from the arch-criminal by whose predatory acts, an d jAwless policy, and criminal ambition, the terrible and sanguinary contest was uncle li;,tbiy orig i na t e d. No matter at..ll.4.pipengi7 ture of blood and money—upon the energetic prosecution of the War with Russia, the nation at large is definitively resolved. This is no idle vapouring. It is the simple announcement of a fact altogether indisputable. The reality of what we are here explicitly enunciating in so many words has been demonstrated beyond the possibility of denial by the attitude assumed during these two last mo mentous years by the entire population. Never was the country, socially and politically, more calm from one end to the other, than during these long months of supreme anxiety, when its bravest sons have been stricken down in battalions three thousand miles away, by the sword and by pesti lence, when provisions and all the other neces saries of life have become dearer and dearer under the pressure of a vast warlike exigency, when increased taxes have extorted from the mul titude every successive season larger and yet larger disbursements. In spite of all which the great heart of the English People has remained true to the sacred cause upon the vindication of which its military and maritime forces have together adventured. It matters little enough what may be declared to the contrary by the unpatriotic wiseacres of Carlisle and Oxford, of the West Riding, and of Manchester events have proved, events are proving, events will continue to prove, that England is heart and soul for the War against Russia, for the alliance with Trance, for the defence of Turkey, for the championship of the interests of Christendom. " Triumph not, ye peace-enamoured rEw ! Fire, Nature, Genius, never dwelt with you!" SO CAMPBELL sang derisively, years ago, in his " Pleasures of Hope," and so also, with equal scorn, may we, too, exclaim, in reference to these miserable peacemongers. Advocates of peace-at any-price, for whom we believe, in our conscience, that not even the petty advantage accruing from a partial victory is reserved, notwithstanding the sinister rumours which have recently been so pain fully prevalent. It is a significant circumstance, we maintain, a circumstance in every way sig nificant, as among the more obvious signs of the times, that the sympathising allusions to these same sinister rumours, adventured upon on Monday last ley the Noble Lord the member for South Durham, on the occasion of the annual dinner of the Fat Cattle Show at Darlington, provoked from the bluff yeomen who were pre sent, expressions both loud and deep of their dis relish for any such disgraceful and discreditable paltering with the national honour. Expressions which were (strictly speaking) to all intents and purposes tantamount to that famous outburst of indignation pronounced upon one memorable fore noon in reference to a namesake of this noble advocate of a dishonourable compromise —words blurted from the lips of his auditory almost as articulately as those which fell from the lips of blunt old OLIVER--" Sir HARRY VANE ! 0, Sir HARRY VANE ! The LORD deliver me from Sir HARRY VANE !" Not a jot less significant in its way, we may venture to opine, was the wholly different reception accorded to sen timents diametrically opposite to those expressed on Thursday by Lord HARRY VANE at Dar lington, the sentiments we mean enunciated with such patriotic and outspoken frankness by the Hon. Baronet the Representative of Tamworth—Sir ROBERT PEEL—himself, as one of the Lords of the Admiralty, a member of the present Govern ment. Speaking of the sinister rumours already alluded to, Sir ROBERT avowed—and we thank him cordially for an avowal so manfully explicit— that his idea is that there is little importance to be attached to these rumours of peace ! Rumours doubly and trebly sinister, remember ! at this particular time, seeing that they couple the name of Austria with the melancholy hypothesis of fresh diplomatic nego tiations. And as Sir ROBERT PEEL boldly declared on Wednesday during the course of his rather notable speech, a speech decidedly " to the pur pose "—" I know, and you all know as well as I do, that Austria is no friend of ours." Where fore the notion of any peace with Russia to be patched up at a juncture like the present, and under the influence of the intervention of a power like Austria, is an idea so base and criminal in itself as to be entitled only to instant repudiation. So thought Sir ROBERT PEEL, and so thought like wise the bluff yeomanry, by whom b is honest English speech was applauded at once enthusiastically and unaffectedly. Enough. If straws thrown up show which way the wind blows—passing words like those which fell from the lips of the Member for Tamworth on Wednesday, and from those of the Noble Lord the Member for South Durham on Thursday, may reveal clearly enough, by the manner of their reception, the opinions cherished in regard to the War with Russia and to a Peace ii rough Austria, by the candid and impartial masses of our English population. It is agreed on all sides that a re•discussion in Parliament •f the whole monetary question can not be arranged too soon ! The Act of 1844 has virtually expired, inasmuch as it only remains on sufferance until the fatal notice be given which must terminate its existence, and so deeply in jurious has been its operation, so prejudicial to the best interests of the nation, and so produc tive of suffering to the great body of the people, that it is admitted on all aides that some relaxa tion must take place. Even the organ of the ultra-bullionists—those who . are aiming at the total abolition of a paper currency unless based on gold, or, in other words, issued against a deposit of specie of the same nominal value—acknowledge that some modifications of the measure are indispensable, that something ought to - be done to relieve the wide-spread distress, by the adoption of a limit too restricted for the exigencies of the nation, and from time to time reduced by the failure or withdrawal of certain provincial Banks authorised to issue notes. The hiatus thus occasioned may be partially filled up by the Bank of England, but on terms with which its directors would be very unwilling to close. Authority might be obtained from the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the Bank of England to issue, on security, its own notes to the extent of two-thirds of the notes thus removed from circu lation. But on what terms ? What induce ments aro held out to the Directors to persuade them to avail themselves of this privilege ? None whatever. The whole profits of the extra issue must be handed over to the Exchequer. They may take for themselves the risk, the trouble, and the expense of the enlarged issue, but the whole of the profits must be given to other parties. Not a single shilling will go to swell- the dividend of the proprietors of Bank illusory,Stock. to The provision was, therefore, clearly inasmuch as one of the patties could not b einduced stipulated t erms t.carry it into operation on the for show rath er than uslte,was palpably intended as tending towards the object manifestly i ntended—namely, the ultimate adoption of a totally metallic currency, in which the privileges conceded to the Bank of England, and the country banks in existence in 1844, should be entirely got rid of ! and an additional increase made to the fortunes of the moneyecracy. The interested parties now find that they h ave gone too far, that the sufferings endured by the industrial population of the country have endau gored the whole of the elaborate machinery. They are therefore willing to make some trifling exten sion, provided what they term the " valuable principle" be retained, to consider whether the limit of 14,000,0001. was not unnecessarily low ! This concession, however, cannot now be accepted. The moneyocracy have struggled to the last mo ment, and the people must strive to get rid alto gether of the baleful influence that has occasioned such fearful mischief to the best interests of the country. There is a second and very numerous and in fluential class who, while refusing to go the whole way with the extravagant bullionists, still listen to other fallacies—who, while protesting against the extreme measures of the " Jones Lloyd School," still pin their faith on the Act of 1819, and insist on immediate " convertibility" of demand as an essential condition in any arrange ment that may be entered into. Although these persons are in some degree more reasonable than the extreme party, and the adoption of their principle would lead to a vast improvement on the code now in operation, they are still very far from the judicious course which would insure the equal value of money, and avert the fluctuations so deeply prejudicial to the country, and destruc tive of the confidence and credit that ought to attend all legitimate commercial operations. It is then for the real Monetary Reformers to see that their views are fairly and clearly put forward, so that the thinking men of the country may be enabled to understand all the phases of the great problem. It is not only essential that the undue restrictions on the circulating medium should be removed, but that the distinction be tween the currency required for foreign trade and internal commerce should be clearly re cognised. There is not, there cannot be, the slightest necessity for a deposit of gold against that currency or any portion of it. And we contend that the foreign trade may easily be provided for without repeated interruptions to our domestic affairs, and subjecting the industrious classes to serious losses and constantly-recurring privations ! The whole question must be decided in the forthcoming session, and should therefore previously be considered in all its varied aspects, so as to arrive at a just conclusion of what will be most advantageous to the great body of the peo ple, and do the greatest good to the greatest number. The Univers is out of temper at the cordial re ception met with by the King of SARDINIA in this country, and rails more suo at " the blundering flatterers who regard as one of his titles to glory the censure which the Holy See has pronounced against his Government." This is precisely what might have been expected from so indiscreet an advocate of ultramontane claims. Had the Univers been endowed with the smallest modicum of tact it would have refrained from putting the affair in so damaging a way. But then it would not hare been the Univers. No doubt the fact that the King of SARDINIA. was under the censure of the POPE contributed largely, in the case of many individuals, to the cordiality of feeling with which they welcomed him. There are bigots among Protestants ; but it is not less true that the great majority left the Papal censure out of their calculation altogether, or at all events, if they regarded it at all, it was with perfect indif ference. The claims of the King of SARDINIA to their regard and admiration were, that he was a thoroughly honest king, who had proved his de votion to the welfare of his subjects, by respecting, and otherwise promoting their constitutional Government, and to the cause of liberty and civilization by joining the Allies. It was in re cognition of these claims that their cheers rent the air at his approach, and so enthusiastic a wel come generally was accorded to him. The Univers, however, must bring the matter to an issue, for though it speaks of the censure as " one of the King's titles to glory," it evidently implies that it was the all-absorbing one. Can these statements be reconciled ? Does the Univers recognise in the one act the involvement of the other ? Can we not give an ovation to a wise, just, and chivalrous ruler under Papal censure, without pronouncing a condemnation of the POPE ? The Univers seems to have had a glimmering of the difficulties of the case. Unfortunately for it the Emperor of the FRENCH and the French peo ple had rivalled the monarch and people of this country in the cordiality of their reception. Yes, a Catholic monarch and a Catholic people, the greatest in the world, had done precisely what we had done. How was this to be accounted for ? The Univers was in a great fix. We received the King of SARDINIA enthusiastically, because he was a rebel to Papal authority, and under the ban of the POPE. Did the Emperor of the FRENCH and the French people participate, like us, in the rebellion of the Sardinian monarch, and emulate us in holding up to derisiun the censure of the Pope ? That was not to be admitted for a mo ment—so what people generally believed to be a sentence of excommunication, which would place every person continuing relations with the excom municated party liable to the sane infliction, must be toned down as above to " a censure," attended by no such consequences. The explanation, for anything we know to the contrary, may be cor rect, though the Univers is not precisely the paper we would feel disposed to rely on in such a case but we fancy it cannot be successfully de nied that it was generally believed, both in France and England, that the young KING was under the Papal ban, and could not be communicated with without incurring the censure of Papal authority. It will be no fault of the Univers if the impres sion does not become general throughout Europe that the Holy See has, in this instance, received a decided check at the hands of a church and people in communion with the Church over which it bears sway, and that the people of England have pronounced once more decisively against its obsolete claims, more especially when they find the highest dignitary of the French Church ac cepting the Grand Cross of the Sardinian Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazare from the hands of the Sardinian Government, and the highest digni tary of the Ronan Catholic Church in England congratulating the Sardinian Monarch on his That,oinrodwith t h t o n w tgli e e v i e nt r e , mr i ep o s a n rta o i ou t e u st o r o l f o t o ht k he em o C u entrance into th e Sardinian Chapel in London. n ht itsu; r c a a h u n , t d h a if o n r d i d t s y e u a t b l 0 - - that of the State, be, on the part of a ruler, an offence against the Holy See incurring its repro bation, we sincerely trust that this example may be followed by others, and that if they come over here their conduct may elicit a like Unmistakeable approval. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 10 1855, FORTIFICATIONS AT NICOLAIEFF. The Oest. Zeitung, of the 27th ult., says : " Travellers relate that Nicolaieff has undergone a great change. The fortifications begin five versts from the city, at the confluence of the Ingul and the Bong. Three rows of fortifications protect the entrance, and 400 guns are in posi tion. Several narrow streets have been pulled down, and enormous barracks and hospitals built. The old Admiralty has been turned into a star fert, and is named after Admiral Lazareff. The Grand Duke Constantine has examined the 80 new mortars which have been placed near Spasska. General Todtleben has invented a car riage for mortars, which is highly approved of." MEETING OF PARLIAMENT. BY THE QUEEN-A PROCLAMATION. VICTORIA R. Whereas our Parliament stands prorogued to Tues day, the 11th day of this instant December, we, with the advice of our Privy Council, do hereby publish and declare that the said Parliament shall be further pro rogued, on the said 11th day of December instant, to Thursday the 31st day of January next ; and we have given order to our Chancellor of that part of our United Kingdom called Great Britain to prepare a commission for proroguing the same accordingly : And we do hereby further, with the advice aforesaid, declare our Royal will and pleasure that the :aid Parliament shall, on the said Thursday the 31st day of January next, assemble and bo holden for the despatch of divers urgent and important affairs : And the Lords Spiritual and Tem poral, and the Knights, Citizens, and Bergesses, and the Commissioners for shires and burghs of the Nouse of Commons, are hereby required and commanded to give their attendance accordingly, at Westminster, on the 31st day of January next. Given at our Court, at Windsor, this 7th day of Ja nuary, 1855, and in the 19th year of our reign. GOD SATE THE QUEEN. SEIZURE OF A RUSSIAN ISLAND. Letters from Okasaki, in the island of Japan ' dated the 19th of September last, state that two French frigates, belonging to the naval expedition sent to the coast of Kamtschatka, took posses. sion on the 3d of that month, in the name of the allied powers, of the island of Urup, the centre of the Russian trade in the Kuriles archipelago, and captured there a Russian cutter, laden with a rich cargo of furs. The Russian name of the island has been changed to that of Alliance. FUNERAL OF ADMIRAL BRUAT. Tho Monitcur has the following report from the Minister of Marine : " Sire,—The eminent services of Admiral Bruat give to his death the character of a public loss, and the whole of France will in this event join in the mourning of the navy. Your Majesty has wished that a striking testimony should be given of the regret of the country for the death of a man who, in different parts of the globe, has contributed to render our flag illustrious, and who has died at his post, after having achieved for our arms in the Black Sea recent and important suc cesses. In order to fulfil the intentions of your Majesty I beg you to order that the funeral obsequies of Admiral Bruat, both at Toulon and at the Hotel des Invalides in Paris, shall be performed at the expense of the state, and be defrayed from the budget of the navy. " I am, &c., " HAMELIN." The report is followed by the annexed decree : " Napoleon, by the grace of God, and the national will, Emperor of the French, " To all whom these presents may concern, greeting : " Considering the eminent services rendered to the country by Admiral Bruat, " O❑ the report of our Minister of State for the de partment of the Marine and Colonies, " We decreed and do decree as follows ? " Art 1. The obsequies and funeral of Admiral Bruat both at Toulon and at the Hotel des Invalides at Paris, shall be performed at the expense of the State. This expense shall be defrayed from the budget of the navy. " Art. 2. Our Minister of Marine will concert mea sures with our Minister of War to assure the execution of the aboYe decree. " Done at Paris this 4th December. (Signed) " NA PO LEON. (Countersigned) " HAMELIN." The wishes of his Majesty have been fully car ried out at Toulon, as the Minister of Marine has received the following dispatch from that port, dated the sth : " The religious ceremony for the purpose of rendering to the mortal remains of Admiral Bruat the funeral honours due to him, has just been celebrated with all the pomp and solemnity which your excellency could desire. The body has been embarked on board the Primauguet, and will leave this evening for Marseilles." THE FIRST WAR STEAMER FOR AUSTRALIA. SOUTHAMPTON, Saturday.—This day our docks were graced by the presence of her Majesty's colonial war steamer (4crew) Victoria, which arrived at an early hour from Deptford Dockyard. She is under the command of Captain Norman, formerly commander of the General Screw Company's steam-ship Queen of the South. The Victoria is destined for the colony of Australia, and is the first war steamer secured by the government of Victoria, for whose service she will be used. She is fitted as a sloop of war, and will have the same comple meat of men. The Victoria is nearly 600 tons burden, and of 150-horse power (nominal). The draught is 12 feet. She is built on the diagonal principle of Mr. Lang, was launched from the yard of Young, Son, and Co., with engines from the factory of Rennie and Sons, being on the patent direct action principle. The Victoria is pierced for 8 guns, having six 32-pounders on her broad sides. At present there are but three guns mounted ; the remainder will be put on board on her arrival out. She has one 32-pounder swivel gun, which can be fought both at stem and stern. On her passage from Deptfo:d she averaged a speed of about 11 knots per hour. When in Dover roads on Thursday night she encountered a heavy gale of wind, when she sustained a trifling da mage. The ostensible purpose for calling at Southamp ton is to take ors board two cows for Sir Charles Hotham, governor of Victoria. During the day she has been an object of much interest, and her beautif u l proport i ons have excited much admiration. She will remain hero until Tuesday next, when she will proceed to her desti nation, after calling at Plymouth. CABINET COUNClL.—Summonses have been i ssue d t o attend a Cabinet Council to-morrow at the Foreign. office, Downing-street. The fifteen members of the Cabinet are expected to attend the meeting. THE AUSTRIAN CONCORDAT. — Permission has been refused to a Prussian Protestant nobleman t o p urc h ase a domain in the Tyrol. This is looked on as one of the first fruits of the Austrian Concordat. Mdlle. Rachel's brother has written to the Figaro to state that the receipts of the French company f or t h e first two months of their acting in America (at New York and Boston) amounted to upwards of 21,0001. We have no confirmation of the fall of Kars. According to despatches from the Crimea, the allies were about to commence offensive operations on the north side of Sebastopol. Important news may be ex pected in a few dayF. The news from Russia continues to be ve r y war lik e . Recruits are driven up to their stations by the military like cattle. It is stated that large orders for arms have been given in Prussia for the Russian army. There is no idea of peac3 at S. Petersburg. THE WIZARD'S ONE 11 . UNDRIIDTE NIGHT.—To-mor row Mr. Anderson achieves the hundredth representa tion of his magical performances. He has advertised that the entertainments will be more interesting than usual, and that every visitor will obtain some presents as a souvenir of the occasion. OXFORD WORKING MEN'S EDUCATIONAL INSTITU TION.—The promoters of this institution have succeeded in organising classes for study in the various depart. ments of literature, science, and art, the first of which, an a lvanced drawing class, commences this day with 12 pupils. An elementary drawing class also commences with 30 pupils. The number who have voluntarily come forward to undergo a course of instruction is about 150 of all classes. PRINTERS' DRAMATIC ASSOCIATION.—The members of this society, with the praiseworthy object of assisting the widow and family of one of their body, propose to give a theatrical performance to-morrow night at the Strand Theatre, assisted by a few professionals. The programme selected for the evening's entertainment in cludes Sheridan Knowles's play of the "Hunchback,' followed by "The Critic." The Spanish Dancers wilt appear between the two plays in a new ballet divertisse ment, supported by an efficient corps de ballet. THE INDIAN Artur.—We believe that there is no longer any doubt that the new Cotnrnander-in Chief of Ma Jras will be a company's officer, and that the man who will have the honour of being the first to break through the old fence of privilege, which has hitherto excluded the officers of the East India Company from the command of armies chiefly composed of company's soldiers, will be General Patrick Grant, of the Bengal Service. This concession has not been obtained without a struggle. As we intimated on a former occasion, the authorities of the Horse Guards have strenuously re ' sisted the nomination of a company's officer ; but neither the President of the Board of Control nor the First Minister could be brought to support the Commander in-Chief. The appointment of Gen. Grant bas not yet taken place, but it will not improbably be proposed to the Court of Directors on Wednesday next.—Overland Mail. CRYSTAL PALACE—FIVE SHILLING DAY, Dec. B. Admissions on payment, 69 ; ditto by season tickets, 436 ; total visitors, 505. Corresponding day last year, 3,937. THE BANK OF LONDON.—The Third Monthly return of the Bank of London has appeared in the Gazette, and exhibits a progress without precedent in the annals of Joint-Stock Banking in the Metropolis ; the amount of deposits at the end of three months is 539,2811, and the assets are 839,2811. The following were the amounts of deposits of the entire Joint-Stock Banks at the periods of their Second Annual Reports, viz.:—(taken from Knight's Statistics of Joint-Stock Banking)— The London and Westminster £266,884 The Union Bank of London The London and County The Commercial Bank The British Bank It appears therefore that the Bank of London has re ceived a large r s h are of public patronage in three months then the above Bank s enjoyed at the end of the Second year. LATEST NEWS. THE OVERLAND MAIL. TRIESTE, MONDAY, DEC. 10. The steamer Australia arrived here this morn iug, at 5 a.m., in 132 hours from Alexandria, which she left on the 4th inst. The India mail bad arrived at Alexandria, with advices from Calcutta of the Bth of November, and Bombay of the 16th of November. The Santal rebellion was being put down by martial la w. The Bengal army had been strengthened by 6,000 men. The Governor-General waa at Madras on bis way to Burmah. Money was scarce ; trade dull ; freights low. Exchange at Bombay, 2s. 1 9-16 tbs. The India mails ceuld not leave Alexandria till the Gth of December. MARSEILLES, SUNDAY. The Sinai has arrived ; she has on board Gen. Niel, chief of the French engineers ; and General Chasseloup-Laubat. Her dates aro from Constantinople of the 29th, the Crimea the 27th. The united Legations have conjointly established a police. The Magellan has arrived with Artillery and a detachment of the Imperial Guard. The concession for the canal from the South Danube to Kustendje has been made by the Go- vernment. On the 25th the snow fell heavily at Sebas topol. The docks will be blown up shortly. The redoubts of the Allies on the Tehernaya keep up a heavy fire. The North Forts do not fire much now. The Allies have constructed 26 batteries to attack tho North Forts. Three hundred and sixty cannon are in position on our lines of the Tchernaya. On account of probable scarcity the Egyptians now at Eupatoria will be sent to reinforce the army of Asia. The missing steamer from Trebizonde has arrived. At the latest intelligence (Nov. 19) Kars still held out ; it was, nevertheless, blockaded, if not invested. A strong caravan for its relief set out on Nov. 9th from Erzeroum, with 10,000 troops, mostly irregulars, under command of Selim Pacha. Omer Pacha was, at the last date, on the banks of the Mavani, three hours' march from Kutais ; he had there halted for the joining of Mustapha Pacha's division, and some Egyptian troops en route. They amount to 13,000 men. The Sulina channel has nine feet of water, and the fleet of 400 merchantmen laden with core are slowly getting to sea. The branch railway from Balaklava to Kamara is completed. Its prolongation to Kadikoi is also finished. The submarine telegraph from Suez to Bombay is to be executed at the expense of the East India Company. BERLIN, SUNDAY, DEC. 9. The Russian Government engineers are occu pied in preparing plans for fortifying Moscow and St. Petersburg. General Dehn is expected to preside over the commission at St. Petersburg, General Todtleben over that at Moscow. M. do Bismark-Schonbausen has bcon hero for ,some days. His presence is supposed to have reference to the proposition on the Eastern question that Aus - tria desires to have laid before the Frankfort Diet. The Baron de Bourqueney, the French Ambas sador at Vienna, is going to Paris to fetch his family, towards the close of this month. His visit to Paris is probably necessary for in structions in case the negotiations on the Eastern question should havo to be resumed. M. Tegoborski, a Russian Councillor of State, is gone to Copenhagen, as the Comtnissiouet from St. Petersburg, in reference to the Souud Dues. The Russian journal the Caucasus states that General Lonsdoff had been obliged to send a detachment of troops to Van, beyond Alladagh, against the Kurds, who had revolted against the Russians. VIENNA, DEC. 7. The reduction which is about to be effected in the A ustriau army will cause a saving to the Treasury of 30 millions of florins. MADRID, DEC. 7. A report is current that the Minister of Fi nance is about to resign. The faction Gorsa, the only one which remained in Catalonia, has been annihilated. The Marquis de Turgot has appealed to the law tribunals relative to an article inserted in a journal insulting to the Empress Eugenie. FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY Nioirr. Private accounts from Vienna, of the 3d, men tion that the arrival of Count Stackelberg from St. Petersburg was expected with the greatest impatience, and indeed anxiety. Count Stackel berg is the military attache to the Russian Embassy in the Austrian capital. He was sent by Prince Gortachakoff to St. Petersburg with despatches for the Emperor Alexander, and as his departure coin cided with the rumours of the renewal of negotia tions for peace, it is natural to suppose that it had reference to that important subject. His return is looked for with much anxiety, as he is expected to bring instructions of the highest importance to Prince Gortschakoff ; and though there is nothing known as to the nature of those instructions, there can be little doubt that they refer to the great question of the day, and, probably, contain the reply of the Emperor Alexander to the propo sitions of peace made by Austria. The King of Sardinia left Paris this morning at 15.9. His Majesty proceeded to the railway sta tion in one of the State carriages. The streets were decked with flags, and were filled with crowds, who cheered very much. The Paris and Brussels papers of Friday, Satur day, and Sunday have come to hand. Ther is a great dearth of news, but mirth spe culation, in their columns. The Patric affirms that it has learned by a tele graphic despatch that disturbances broke out at Odessa in consequence of the Bank, owing to want of specie, announcing that it could only make its payments in paper. By the interference of the military order was restored. The Moniteur of Saturday has several Imperial decrees, promotions, an I nominations, with com mercial documents, and a list of the rewards ad judged by the international jury at the close of the Exhibition of Industry and Fine Arts. It makes four supplements to the official journal. The funeral ceremony of Admiral Bruat is de scribod. Vico-Admiral Dubourdieu delivered an eloquent and pathetic funeral oration, in which he traced the honourable career of the deceased officer. The Moniteur farther contains a remarkable and interesting article, headed "Le Port de Sebas topol," in which the official Russian lists of the Russian Black Sea navy, and its strength from 1852 to 1855, are given. While European ac counts made this fleet at most 55 to GO ships, the documents published by the Moniteur show it to have consisted of 187 numbered vessels, of which 127 were in active service. Of these 16 were of the line, 7 frigates, 5 corvettes, 12 brigs, 6 steam-frigates, &c. This fleet is now entirely dis persed and destroyed. Of the 16 line-of-battle ships, 15 have at various times been sunk in Sebas topol harbour by the Russians themselves; and the last, the Santa Maria, was set on fire and burnt by the shells of the Allies. Five sailing frigates, 3 corvettes, 7 brigs, and n steamers, among which was the iladimir, which was conspicuous in the defence of the place ; the Bessarabia ; the Grossmo nossetz, which conveyed to Constantinople the embassy of Prince Menschikoff ; . L'Etoile du Nord, and Pierre le Grand, used for the Crimean voyages of the Imperial family and suite, with many in ferior vessels, transports, mortar-boats, altogether 60 vessels, have perished in the waters of Sebasto pol. It is announced that on the 22d inst. the Na tional Guard of Paris intend giving a banquet to the Imperial Guard in the Palace of the Universal Exhibition. On Saturday the King of Sardinia, Count Cavour, the Minister of Agriculture and Public Works, the Commission of Inquiry in the Management of Railways, with the principal engineers, attended at the terminus in the Rue St. Lazare, to witness the experiments of Chevalier Bonelli on the electric telegraph. The system, which is highly ingenious, keeps up a constant communication of the where abouts of every train relative to the station it ap proaches or departs from. It was highly admired, and worked perfectly. The Univers is angry at the manner in which the King of Sardinia has been received in England, and rails at the " blundering flatterers who regard as one of his titles to glory the censure which the Holy See has pronounced against his Government." "There has been no sentence of excommunication specially pronounced against Victor Emmanuel, and therefore no one in the church can treat him as excom municated, nor refuse him the honour which usage and courtesy prescribe towards a Sovereign." Rear-Admiral Count Bonet- Willaumez has been appointed to the command of the French naval squadron of the Levant and cf the expeditionary corps in Greece, in the room of M. Jacquinot, prc moted to the rank of Vice-Admiral. Capitaine de Vaisseau de Dompierre-d'Hornoy has been ap pointed flag captain and chief of the staff to Rear- Admiral Count Bouet-Willaumez, who will hoist his flag on board the Gomer steam-frigate. Rear- Admiral Rigault de Genouilly has been named member of the Council of the Admiralty, in the room of Vice-Admiral La Place, appointed to other duties. Lord Canning, the new Governor-General of India, left Marseilles on Wednesday morning in the Caradoc for Alexandria. A steam-frigate will be in attendance for his lordship at Suez, to convey him, his family, and suite to Bombay. The mother of M. Caussidiere, who was Prefect of Police during the early days of the revolution of 1818, was interred this morning in the cemetery of Montmartre. From 80 to 100 persons followed her to the grave. THE PRINCIPALITIES. A letter from Vienna, of the 4th inst., in Toss's Gazette, says :—"Although several journals have de nied that Prince Gortschakoff protested in the name of the Russian Government against all determina tions relative to the Danubian Principalities, that protest certainly was made, and does not remain without effect, as the powers have agreed to postpone the consideration of the question until the end of the war. That decision besides has been come to partly in consequence of the differences of opinion which the Allied Powers entertain on the subject of the organisation which ought to be given to the Principalities." A letter from Bucharest of tho 26th November, in the Constitutionnel, says " A considerable smugg li ng t ra d e i s carr i e d on in various articles, particularly salt, between Mol davia and Bessarabia, in the villages on the right bank of the Pruth, and now occupied by Austrian garrisons. The Moldavian government, with a view to put an end to the traffic, addressed a note on the 16th of October to Count de Paar, the Commandant in Chief of the Austrian forces. To this application the following reply was given : " Jassy, Nov. 10. " The Superior Commandant of the Imperial and Royal Corpe d'Armee thinks proper to reply to the honourable communication of the 16th October, relative to the smuggling carried on be tween Moldavia and Bessarabia, that the city of the Imperial army consists according to the mean ing of the treaty concluded with Turkey, in re pelling any armed irruption on the part of the Rus sians on the frontier, and not in acting as police, that duty coining under the attributions of the Moldavian government. He cannot consequently accede to the demand made on the occasion alluded to. " PAAR.'' Colonel Blomfield, who had been sent to this place in consequence of the arrest of Colonel Tur, died almoSt suddenly on the day after his arrival from the fatigues of his journey. The Ottoman troops of the garrison and the Wallachian staff paid the usual military honours at his funeral. The agents and consuls of the foreign powers were in vited by the English consul-general to attend the funeral, as well as the superior civil and military authorities. Among the Austrian officers present were the Commandant-in-Chief ad interim, and Generals Lallemand, Poppovitz, &c. ; and among the Turkish staff were Omer Bey, the commandant of the garrison, and Colonel Murad Bey (St. Andre). SARDINIA. TURIN, Dec. 4.—The clerical papers of Turin are vastly indignant at their Sovereign having received an address from the Christian Association, and still more at his having replied to it by wishing the society every success ; and tho Radical papers are equally displeased that ho should, when passing through Lyons, have sent a civil message to Mon signor Franzoni, the exiled Archbishop o f T ur i n, who resides there. uch objections are worthy of each extreme, intolerant alike of each other and of every one else who does does not think as they do, but the Radical papers, at least, are tolerably satis fied with the King's reception in London, while the others view the whole journey with a jaundiced eye. AUSTRIA, A letter dated Vienna, Dec. 4, says :—The Aus trian Government is extremely desirous to find ' persons who will write articles for certain f , reign papers in defence of the concordat, but the task is such an ungrateful one that no one has either the will or the courage to undertake it. Not long since a prodigiously long article appeared in the Augs burg Gazette, the object of which was to calm the apprehensions of the Protestants residing in Aus tria, but as the arguments employed were princi pally based on the " well-known moderation" of the Roman Catholic clergy, it produced little or no effect. At the same time that the concordat was under consideration, the draught of some laws which were favourable to the non-Catholic confes sions was made, but it seems that it has, for the moment, been laid ad acts. Some pastoral letters have recently been published by Lombardo Vene tian bishops, and in them it is said that there can be no question of equality between the different con fessions as the Roman Catholic " is the dominant church." It is not less clearly stated that Pro testants must be well satisfied if they are simply tolerated in Austria. There is, pehaps no coun try under the sun in which the authorities so much delight in vexatious measures, which have not even the merit of being of service to the State, as in this. Every person who frequents the Exchange is obliged to take a ticket, for which he pays a trifling sum ; and on the Ist of this month notice was given by the police authorities that in future every ticket would, in ,addition to the name and address, have the religion of its possessor inscribed on it. This new regulation has excited extreme indignation among the Hebrew frequenters of the Exchange, and its consequences will assuredly be felt when their assistance is again required by the State. When the national loan was being raised the wealthy Jewish bankers were cajoled, and led to expect that their political position would be greatly ameliorated. In the hope that their pa triotic feeling would be properly appreciated they one and all subscribed very largely, and now they find themselves exposed to what they justly consi der a gratuitous insult. RUSSIA. A letter from St. Petersburg, published in the Constitutionncl of the 29th ult., says— " Little importance appeared at first to be at tached to the mission of General Canrobert to Copenhagen, but this indifference was afterwards succeeded by a cert tin uneasiness. It is feared .that it is the intention of the Allies next spring to make the Baltic the principal scene of their ope rations.. This would cause a real danger, not only because the great majority of the troops have been directed towards the south, but also because the trifling commerce which it has been hitherto possible to carry on between the ca pital and . the provinces of the Baltic must be given up. Several Generals who have ar. rived, or are expected here, appear to have been sent for with a view to these eventualities. A letter from Moscow states that the Emperor, in returning through that city, devoted the short time ho stopped there solely to reli gious acts. He visited in succession the nume rous churches of the Kremlin and paid his devo tions to the relics, and at his departure he received from the bishop the image of a saint. During the last threw days of his journey from Perekop to Moscow the Emperor did not publish any order of the day. This is the first blank of the kind that has occurred since his accession to the throne, and was doubtless caused by the rapidity which he tra velled. Admini,trative affairs at Taganrog have so much increased, in consequence of the trans ports by land occasioned by the blockade, that the Government has been compelled to increase the number of the employes." AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY, DEC. 9. The Pacific has arrived with advices from New York to the 27th of November, and $9,000 in specie. The Washington correspondent of the Journal of Commerce says it is understood "that the repre sentations of our Government regarding the alleged violation of the neutrality laws by Mr. Crampton have not been met in that straightforward manner our Government had a right to expect." Mr. Buchanan says the professions of friendship by the British Cabinet are more profuse than here tofore, and expresses the opinion that procrastina tion has been resorted to in the hope that some-. thing might turn up to relieve the British Govern ment from its dilemma. The Washington Union, by authority of the State Department, says that Mr. Buchanan, with regard to the augmentation of the British West Indian squadron, says that Lord Clarendon stated that the mission of the squadron originated in no act unfriendly to the United States ; its object was to protect British commerce from privateers said to be fitting out at our ports ; the case of the Maury, as represented by Mr. Barclay and Mr. Crampton, was cited in justification. The New York Journal of Commerce, referring to the enlistment question and the rumoured re call of Mr. Crampton, the British Minister regrets to learn that it is the determination of the Admi nistration to make that gentleman the expiating victim of the offence alleged to have been per F • The committee appointed by the New York Chamber of Commerce to ascertain and report the facts connected with the seizure of the Maury had made their report, and the Chamber had adopted it. The report states that the character of the owners of the vessel had been needlessly assailed, owing to the want of proper inquiry of the British diplomatic agents ; it asserts that the United States' Government has always strictly enforced the laws of neutrality; the British agents bad not properly apologised to the owners of the Maury for the infamous impeachment against them ; one of the three resolutions adopted by the Chamber on this subject is as follows : " Th a t the merchants, as part of the body of merchants of the United States, will uphold the Government in the full maintenance of neutrality, of the laws of the country, and we acknowledge and adopt, and always have regarded the acts of the United States for preserving its neutrality as binding in honour and conscience, as well as in law, and that we denounce those who violate them as disturbers of the peace of the world, to be held in universal abhorrence." By the arrival of the steam-ship Daniel Webster at New Orleans advices have been received from California to the sth ult. The mining news is of an encouraging nature. The Indians in Oregon were continuing their depredations on an extensive scale. An additional force of 200 men had left San Francisco to join Colonel Walker, who still retained quiet possession of Granada and the Transit route. He was daily receiving accessions. On the 13th Mr. Wheeler, the United States' Minister at Nicaragua, formally recognised Walker's Government. Gene ral Corral had been found guilty of treason and shot, and Espinosa had been banished. Colonel Kinney remained at Greytown, but 50 of his fol lowers had joined the Walker party. Advices from Havannah to the 23d ult. had been also received at that port by the arrival of the steam-ship Grenada, but the / news was unimpor tant. Sugars were wh o lly unchanged. From Mexico the dates aro to the 18th alt. Ge neral Alvarez had entered the capital with 5,000 men, the garrison having evacuated, and a cordial feeling existed between the General and Vidaurri. Advices have been received from Venezuela to the Bth ult. The port was perfectly healthy and tranquil. In La Guayra and Porto Cabello cholera was raging to an alarming extent. At New York there was a more torpid feeling in financial circles. Capital was abundant, and the banks were discounted liberally ; first-class paper was done at 9 to 12 per cent. Stock was active, but heavy, and prices had a decided downward tendency, resulting in a decline in Erie Railroad, 11 ; Haarlem, I ; Reading, ; Michigan Southern, 2 ; Michigan Central, 21 ; Galena and Chichago, 12; Chicago and Rock Island, ; Illinois Central Bonds, Exchange on England was in good demand, at 108 to 1081 per cent. Bills on France were quoted at sf. 214 c. to sf. 25c. Cotton was unchanged. In breadstuffs there was an advance. Freights were better. CONTRABAND OF WAR AT HAMBURG. HAMBURG, Dec. s.—lt is now several weeks since the British consul-general here, Col. Hodges, was instructed by Government to present to the Senate of Hamburg an energetic note, strongly protesting against the laxity with which the Go verment of this city observed their so-called neu trality, and the glaring and open manner in which contraband of war (and more especially the articles of sulphur and saltpetre) was sent from here by the Prussian railroad to Russia. Within the last ten days large quantities of these articles have been imported here without any notice being taken of it, or protest raised from any side whatever, and it is no secret here that the pur chasers are the agents of St. Petersburg houses, and that the goods have been sent on by railroad to Russia. That your readers may judge for them selves of the quantity of sulphur and saltpetre i • ported into Hamburg within the, last few days, I beg to subjoin the following particulars, taken from our official import lists : "Antagonist (British barque), Blake, master, from Terranova, 1,120,0001 b. sulphur. "Labora (Danish schooner), Captain Muhl, from Marseilles, 150 chests of s u lph ur . "Albis (Hamburg brig), Captain Ahrens, from Iquique, 1,759 bags of saltpetre. "Johann Julius (Holstein barque), Captain Harm), from Iquique, 3,116 bags of saltpetre. "Jane Innes (British schooner), Bunt, master, from Palermo, 1,430 cantars (cwt.) of sulphur. "Maria (Holstein schooner), Captain Meyer, from Girwenti, 1,655 cantars of sulphut. "Hans Friedrich (Danish brig), Captain Brand, from Iquique, 3,157 hags of saltpetre. "Alders Minde (Norwegian brig), Captain Bruhn, from Licata, 2,680 cantars of sulphur. "Blida (Elamburg brig), Captain Jachtmann, from New York, 1,563 bags of saltpetre." Here then we have, in the short space of ten days, no less than five cargoes of sulphur and four of saltpetre, with the certain knowledge that they are sent on to Russia, and converted into gun powder to be used against us. Within the last few days a large demand has sprung up here for empty sugar chests, particularly for those from Havannah and the Brazils. These chests are conveyed to the so-called Theerhof—a largo isolated stack of warehouses used exclusively for warehousing tar, turpentine, sulphur, saltpetre, pitch, and other easily inflammable articles of mer chandise—where they are filled with sulphur. As largo quantities of Brazil and Havannah sugars are sent every day to Russia by the railroad, it is not irrational to suspect that this sulphur, packed in old sugar cases, is also intended for transit to Russia—probably to be mixed up with other and similar chests of real sugar, to mask the real nature of the transaction, and satisfy the easy consciences of the Prussian officials. THE MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY. The Royal Mail Company's steam-sbips at present in dock are the Avon, Atrato, Magdalena, Great Western, and Tamar. _ The Avon will leave on Monday with the Brazil and River Plate mail!, _ --- The Atrato will take out the West India and Pacific mails on the 17th. The Parana, with the homeward portion of the West India mail, may be expected on the 16th. The Peninsular Company's steam-ships now in deck are the Iberia, Sultan, Alma, and Euxine. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Alma bad her trial trip on Friday in Southampton Water. She was to proceed to India to carry the mails in the Indian &las, but, owing to an accident to the new steamer Pera, belonging to the above-mentioned company, the Alma will be detained to convey out the India mail to Alex andria on the `2oth- inst. The Pera, the company's new ship, which was expected yesterday, has received some damage, which will pro bably delay her arrival a few days. The North Star (Vanderbilt's), from America, may be expected to-morrow. It is more than prob a ble that her advices will be anticipated by an earlier arrival at Liver pool.